Gender Wage Differentials in Brazil: Trends Over a Turbulent Era
25 Pages Posted: 17 Nov 2003
Date Written: September 2003
Abstract
Since the late 1980s, macroeconomic and trade reform in Brazil appears to have been accompanied by a substantial improvement in the position of women compared with men in the labor market, despite only modest changes to labor market institutions. Arabsheibani, Carneiro, and Henley examine movements in the gender wage gap from 1988 to 1998. Their findings indicate that, over this period, the gender wage gap fell mainly because of reduced discrimination against women. But the authors find evidence to suggest that, more recently, since the elimination of high inflation, human capital investments and other earnings-related enhancements have begun to improve women's condition.
This paper is a product of Poverty Reduction and Economic Management 4, Africa Technical Families.
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