NDLI: The Cost of Discrimination in Latin America

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Author	Patris, Harry Anthony
Copyright Year	2000
Abstract	Indigenous and linguistic minorities are in an inferior economic and social position. The ethnic concentration of inequality is increasingly being recognized in the literature. In this review, studies from six Latin American countries that estimate the costs to an individual of being an economic minority are reviewed. The studies decompose the overall earnings gap into two components. One is the portion attributable to differences in the endowments of income-generating characteristics (“explained” differences) and the other is attributable to differences in the returns that majority and minority workers receive for the same endowment of income-generating characteristics (“unexplained”). This latter component is often taken as reflecting the “upper bound” of wage discrimination. In two studies for Bolivia, one using a 1966 survey and the other a 1989 survey, decomposition of the differential between indigenous and nonindigenous earnings leads to the conclusion that most of the overall differential is due to productivity. In Guatemala, Mexico and Peru, only one-half of the earnings differential can be attributed to differences in productivity-enhancing characteristics. In Paraguay, decomposition of the overall earnings differential between monolingual Spanish speakers and Guaraní speakers shows that most of the differential is explained by human capital differences. In Brazil, however, there is a significant cost to “being non-white.”
Starting Page	3
Ending Page	17
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00393606
Journal	Studies in Comparative International Development
Volume Number	35
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	19366167
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2000-01-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	International Economics Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Political Science and International Relations Development

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