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The Role of Individual Characteristics in Explaining the Earnings Gap Exploring the Unexplained Component of the Gender Earnings Gap Notes References 12 The Understudied Caribbean: Barbados (2004) and Jamaica (2003) What Does the Literature Show? History and Development of Barbados and Jamaica Barbados: Men in the Middle, Women at Both Ends The Role of Individual Characteristics in Explaining the Gender Earnings Gap Exploring the Unexplained Component of the Gender Earnings Gap Jamaica: Women in the Middle, Men at Both Ends The Role of Individual Characteristics in Explaining the Gender Earnings Gap Exploring the Unexplained Component of the Gender Earnings Gap Summary Notes References
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PART III: ETHNIC EARNINGS GAPS
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13 Overlapping Disadvantages: Ethnicity and Earnings Gaps in Latin America
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What Does the Literature Show? How Do Ethnic Minorities and Nonminorities in the Work Force Differ? The Role of Individual Characteristics in Explaining the Ethnic Earnings Gap Exploring the Unexplained Component of the Ethnic Earnings Gap Notes References 14 Promoting Ethnic Equality: Brazil 1996–2006 What Does the Literature Show?
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