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Has Japan's Long-term employment Practice Survived? New Evidence Emerging Since the 1990s [PDF]

What happened to the traditional, long-term employment practices in Japan after the 1990s has remained unexplored. We take advantage of a micro data set from the Basic Survey on Wage Structure to provide new evidence regarding the years of tenure for ...
Izumi Yokoyama, Satoshi Shimizutani
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Are immigrants so stuck to the floor that the ceiling is irrelevant? [PDF]

In this paper, the immigrant-native wage differential is explained through quantile regression estimations. Using repeated cross-sections of the British Labour Force Survey from 1993-2005, we analyse the returns to covariates across the conditional ...
Hunt, Priscillia
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West-East Convergence in the Prevalence of Illicit Drugs: Socioeconomics or Culture? [PDF]

In contrast to West-Germany, illicit drugs were virtually absent in East-Germany until 1990. Yet, after the collapse of the former GDR, East-Germany was expected to encounter a sharp increase in the prevalence of substance abuse.By analyzing individual ...
Harald Tauchmann
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions [PDF]

We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable.
Elder, Todd E., Goddeeris, John H., Haider, Steven J.   +2 more
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Getting What (Employers Think) You’re Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates [PDF]

Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages ...
Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten
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Analysis of urban-rural differences in cognitive function among empty nest older adult in China based on Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Pan X, Zhang GN, Lai LC, Zhang LY, Huang HQ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Determinants of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Russian Regions [PDF]

A modification of Barro and Sala-i-Martin empirical framework of growth model is specified to examine determinants of per capita growth in 74 Russian regions during period of 1996-2005. We utilize both panel and cross-sectional data.
Mikael Linden, Svetlana Ledyaeva
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Socioeconomic inequality in hypertension and its determinants in people over 60 years in Fasa, southern Iran: a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Tabrizi R, Pakzad R, Akbari M, Dehghan A, Abdollahi M, Bazmi S, Kardeh S, Sarikhani Y.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data – 1997 to 2002 [PDF]

Using unique personnel data from one Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 we study the size, development and determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition.
Dohmen, Thomas, Lehmann, Hartmut, Zaiceva, Anzelika   +2 more
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Remoteness-attributable financial inequality in dental service utilization in Australian older adults: A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. [PDF]

Community Dent Oral Epidemiol
Ghanbarzadegan A, Ju X, Sohn W, Jamieson L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source