Descomposición de las brechas de ingresos en Ecuador utilizando PSM para los años 2005, 2009 y 2014.

Abstract

The main objective in this research is to decompose the income gaps in Ecuador by the method of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) for the years 2004, 2009 and 2014 after using the Propensity Score Matching (PSM) method in order to obtain statistically equivalent observations; using data published by the National Survey on Employment, Unemployment and Underemployment of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses. We decompose the income gaps by gender, ethnicity and labor informality. The results show that the wage gap is attributable not only to potential factors of discrimination but also responds to differences in human capital endowments of workforce. The politics directed to reduce the income gaps should focus to improve the standard of instruction workers, and not only in reducing discrimination