Gender wage differentials in Brazil: trends over a turbulent era

Reza (Gholamreza) Arabsheibani (), Francisco Carneiro and Andrew Henley

No 3148, Policy Research Working Paper Series from The World Bank

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. The authors 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.

Keywords: Public Health Promotion; Anthropology; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Gender and Development; Population&Development; Anthropology; Agricultural Knowledge&Information Systems; Environmental Economics&Policies; Health Monitoring&Evaluation; Population&Development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-10-01
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