The Impact of Occupational Segregation by Gender and Race on Income Gap in Brazil over Three Decades (1986-2015)

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to analyze the occupational segregation by gender and race, and its impact on the income gap in Brazil between 1986 and 2015. In this sense, we replicated five multigroup indexes developed by Del Río e Alonso-Villar (2015). They present global and local measures that allow to decompose wage inequality. Through the timely segregation analysis, we observed that economic, social and political processes in these 29 years led to equal occupational structure and labor market in Brazil. In addition, we only studied workers who attended higher education, in the South and Southeast regions. Results point out to a decreasing occupational segregation, especially by gender, although heterogeneities by schooling and on wage definition (discrimination) have been found.