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1. 1. Women in the Workforce: A Decomposition of Female Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Laura Giles Alvarez; [2013]
   Keywords : Race; women; wages; inequality; labour market; skills.; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This paper analyses how racial wage gaps amongst women in the Brazilian urban labour market have evolved in response to a strong increase in workers’ skills between 2001 and 2011. For this purpose, Melly (2005, 2006) quantile decomposition frameworks will be applied using PNAD data. READ MORE