This paper analyzes both the levels and evolution of wage inequality in the Brazilian formal labor market using administrative data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor (RAIS) from 1994 to 2009. After the covariance structure ...

This paper studies recent inequality patterns and the distributional effects of schooling and job informality on wage inequality in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico during the 2002?2014 period. By means of a quantile ...

This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s ...

This paper investigates what happened with wage inequality in Brazil from 1981 to 2009. We used four observable characteristics: edcuation, experience, the economic activity that the individual works and the region where ...

In recent years, Bolivia has experienced a series of economic and political transformations that have directly affected the labor markets, particularly the salaried urban sector. Real wages have shown strong increases ...

Earnings inequality has started to fall in Brazil in recent years, after remaining very high for decades. We describe this decline using a flexible decomposition technique and assess the contributions of education and ...

Neste trabalho estudamos a evolução da desigualdade de salários no mercado formal de trabalho no Brasil utilizando dados da Relação Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS) no período entre 1994 e 2009. Utilizamos a variância ...