¿Co-exist the phenomena of wage discrimination and occupational segmentation against ethnicracial minorities residents in Santiago de Cali?

Abstract

This paper contrasted the hypothesis of wage discrimination and occupational segmentation by ethno-racial status in Cali using the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition and Multinomial Logistic model. The results show that 56.30% of the wage gaps are explained by heterogeneity in individuals own characteristics, while the 39.26% relates to discrimination effect. Additionally, the probability of realizing categorized as ethnic minorities occupations is lower (6.9% ) compared to mixed occupations (25.6%) and non-ethnic ( 67.5%). This verifies that ethnic minorities face stationed in Cali both phenomena.