Wage differentials by gender and color: a comparison between Brazilian metropolitan regions

ABSTRACT The study analyses the wage differences behavior considering gender and race in the Brazilian metropolitan areas. Based on a sample from PNAD (1989) were empirically examined the pattern of the wage differences in the metropolitan areas in general and afterwards was made a regional comparison. Restressing previous researches, this paper reveals that, in average, either the men wages are higher than the women as well as those received by white people are superior than the blacks. Even after the realization a series of controls, such as: age, scholarship, place of living and race (gender). The gender differences revealed to be more homogeneous among the regions rather than the race differences.