ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the changes that took place in the Chilean labour market during the process of intense industrialization known as Import Substituting Industrialization. It presents and interprets new series of wages for men and women, for the case of Chile. The chapter discusses theoretical approaches to the differences between men and women as regards their wages and participation in the labour market. Yet the wages of young males were indeed lower than those of adult males and the gender gap by age shows the same trend as in the industrialization periods of other countries. The data collected and the estimations do give some insight into how wages and the wage gap behaved. The trend was for steady growth in the ratio of female to male wages, which means that the remuneration gap between genders narrowed steadily during the industrialization period. The information about hours of work in 1946 shows equal time participation but a much higher time—rate wage difference.
