New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic earnings gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean / by Hugo Nopo.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / by Ronald Oaxaca -- Acknowledgements -- Overview -- Education : girls outpaced boys -- Some basics : the methodology and the data -- Gender earnings gaps in the region : more schooling but lower earnings -- The mostly unexplained gender earnings gap : Peru, 1997-2009 -- Is segregation at the workplace a culprit for earnings gaps? : Mexico, 1994-2004 -- Low female participation and high males : overtime : Chile, 1992-2009 -- The resilient wage gap : Colombia, 1994-2006 -- Equality promotion in the country with the highest earnings gaps of the region : brazil, 1996-2006 -- Gender wage gaps in a country with a large indigenous population : Ecuador, 2003-2007 -- Higher gender wage gaps among the poorest : Central American countries -- The understudied caribbean : Barbados and Jamaica -- Overlapping disadvantages : ethnicity and earnings gaps -- Efforts for equality promotion that start to show results : Brazil, 1996-2006 -- No good jobs and lower earnings : Ecuador, 2000-2007 -- Differentials for big minorities : Guatemala, 2000-2006 -- As a way of summarizing and outlining some policy options.

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