Un estudio de segregación de los hombres afrodescendientes en el mercado laboral uruguayo

Ani Taschdjian () and Daniela Vázquez Leggiadro ()
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Ani Taschdjian: Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República

No 513, Documentos de Trabajo (working papers) from Department of Economics - dECON

Abstract: Latin America is a region characterized by its racial inequality. The recent appearance in official statistics of questions about the racialascendancyof individuals, enables us to test the validity of thatassumption for Uruguay. For the quantification of the wage gap between white and African descendants, this paper estimates a Mincer wage equation, with extra variables that aimed to capturewage discrimination due to segregation by occupation, by branch of industry and by establishment as well as other ways of discrimination. Using the National Household Survey 2006 (Encuesta Nacional de Hogares Ampliada 2006) we found that the hourly wage of African descendantmenis on average 24.8% less than the ones of white men. This gap in wages primarily consists of three main factors: 28.6% is due to segregation; 31.9% to discrimination that is channeled in other ways; and the rest to differences in workers? characteristics. In particular, differences in human capitalare very important: 25.8% of the gap is explained by differences in education and work experience of both groups.

Keywords: discrimination; racial segregation; wage gap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J3 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51
Date: 2013-04
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