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Race, Gender and Regional Labor Market Inequalities in Brazil

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This study investigates the relationship between unequal regional development and racial and gender wage inequality in Brazil. Using sample data from the 1991 Brazilian census, I estimated monthly wages for a white, brown and black women and men working in the states of S"o Paulo and Bahia. The findings suggest that while women and Afro-Brazilians in Brazil's most developed region of S"o Paulo had the advantages of higher levels of state sponsored work benefits and more equitable occupational and wage distribution, they nevertheless experienced the greatest discrimination. In contrast, the less developed state of Bahia where racial and gender gaps in education, occupation and wages were the most severe, wage discrimination was lowest.

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  • Peggy Lovell, 2000. "Race, Gender and Regional Labor Market Inequalities in Brazil," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 58(3), pages 277-293.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:58:y:2000:i:3:p:277-293
    DOI: 10.1080/00346760050132337
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    1. Agier, Isabelle & Szafarz, Ariane, 2013. "Microfinance and Gender: Is There a Glass Ceiling on Loan Size?," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 42(C), pages 165-181.
    2. Wenjun Liu & Tomokazu Nomura & Shoji Nishijima, 2011. "Gender Discrimination and Firm Profit Efficiency:Evidence from Brazil," Discussion Papers 1019, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University.
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    4. Rodrigo De-Losso & Joelson Oliveira Sampaio, Luciana Gross Cunha, 2015. "Trust in the Judicial System: Evidence from Brazil," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2015_18, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    5. Paola Salardi, 2016. "The Evolution of Gender and Racial Occupational Segregation Across Formal and Non‐Formal Labor Markets in Brazil, 1987 to 2006," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 62(S1), pages 68-89, August.
    6. Sue Ledwith & Janet Munakamwe, 2015. "Gender, union leadership and collective bargaining: Brazil and South Africa," The Economic and Labour Relations Review, , vol. 26(3), pages 411-429, September.

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