Wage inequalities in urban labor market in the state of Paraná: a Heckman methodology application

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Marcos Aurelio Andrade
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Outros Autores: Campos, Maria de Fátima de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Paranaense de Desenvolvimento (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://ipardes.emnuvens.com.br/revistaparanaense/article/view/37
• topic: Wages differentials; Heckman; Paraná; Diferenciais de salários; Heckman; mercado de trabalho; Paraná

In this article, determinants of wages are estimated for the case of the State of Paraná. The estimates are based on micro data for the year 2000, obtained from the Demographic Census, which is surveyed by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). The classical function of humancapital is augmented to include other variables such as gender and race. Moreover, physical and geographical characteristicsand exogenous income are introduced in the model. The procedure by Heckman (1979) is used to eliminate potential selectivity biases. The results confirm education and experienceas important variables affecting wages (positively). Still, the results indicate that personal features differentiate individuals in the labor market, where Afro-Brazilians experience some handicaps. When the geographic issue is incorporated, theestimates indicate, in the case of three major cities of Paraná, the following analysis: in terms of wage determination, workers in Curitiba City have advantages in comparison (in the following order) with workers in the cities of Londrina and Maringá.