Ethnic and Gender Discrimination in labor markets: The Bolivian Case
(2012) EKHR92 20121Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to identify wage gaps attributable to discrimination in labor markets as consequence of discrimination in endowments such as education. For this purpose, the paper analyzes supply and demand-side of labor market, in order to establish a base line for the econometric analysis.
Some indexes and descriptive data were provided in order to give more support to the econometric findings. The results show that there is evidence of discrimination by gender, ethnicity and region; as well discrimination seems to be explained by education opportunities that may determine further productivity.
One striking result is given by the way to measure the variable ethnicity, depending on the methodology used to define ethnicity,... (More) - The aim of this paper is to identify wage gaps attributable to discrimination in labor markets as consequence of discrimination in endowments such as education. For this purpose, the paper analyzes supply and demand-side of labor market, in order to establish a base line for the econometric analysis.
Some indexes and descriptive data were provided in order to give more support to the econometric findings. The results show that there is evidence of discrimination by gender, ethnicity and region; as well discrimination seems to be explained by education opportunities that may determine further productivity.
One striking result is given by the way to measure the variable ethnicity, depending on the methodology used to define ethnicity, results have large differentials. (Less)
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- author
- Balderrama Duran, Diana LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EKHR92 20121
- year
- 2012
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- ethnicity, gender, human capital, discrimination, labor market
- language
- English
- id
- 3054406
- date added to LUP
- 2012-09-20 12:25:05
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@misc{3054406,
abstract = {{The aim of this paper is to identify wage gaps attributable to discrimination in labor markets as consequence of discrimination in endowments such as education. For this purpose, the paper analyzes supply and demand-side of labor market, in order to establish a base line for the econometric analysis.
Some indexes and descriptive data were provided in order to give more support to the econometric findings. The results show that there is evidence of discrimination by gender, ethnicity and region; as well discrimination seems to be explained by education opportunities that may determine further productivity.
One striking result is given by the way to measure the variable ethnicity, depending on the methodology used to define ethnicity, results have large differentials.}},
author = {{Balderrama Duran, Diana}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Ethnic and Gender Discrimination in labor markets: The Bolivian Case}},
year = {{2012}},
}