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Psychological Traits and Earnings Differences Among Men: A Study of Second - Generation Immigrants in Sweden [PDF]

The purpose of this study is to analyse the impact of psychological traits on earnings differentials between second-generation immigrants and individuals with native-born parents.
Hanes, Niklas, Norlin, Erik
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Examining the Gender Wealth Gap in Germany [PDF]

Welfare-oriented analyses of economic outcome measures such as income and wealth generally rest on the assumption of pooled and equally shared resources among all household members. Yet the lack of individual-level data hampers the distribution of income
Eva M. Sierminska, Joachim R. Frick, Markus M. Grabka   +2 more
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Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

Econometrics, 2018
This paper provides a detailed exposition of an extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method that can be applied to various distributional measures.
Sergio P. Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux   +2 more
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Explaining the increased health care expenditures associated with gastroesophageal reflux disease among elderly Medicare beneficiaries with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a cost-decomposition analysis

International Journal of COPD, 2014
Mayank Ajmera,1 Amit D Raval,1 Chan Shen,2 Usha Sambamoorthi1 1Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and Policy, School of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA; 2Department of Biostatistics and Health Services ...
Ajmera M, Raval AD, Shen C, Sambamoorthi U   +3 more
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BRAZILIAN FEMALE LABOR MARKET: RACIAL-SKIN COLOR DISCRIMINATION AND INEFFICIENCY

Economia Aplicada, 2015
The myth of racial democracy is still widespread in the Brazilian society, although economic literature has continuously documented pervasive racial discrimination.
GUSTAVO ANDREY DE ALMEIDA LOPES FERNANDES
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Oaxaca/Blinder decompositions for nonlinear models [PDF]

This paper describes the estimation of a general Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition of the mean outcome differential of linear and nonlinear regression models.
Markus Hahn, Matthias Sinning
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mKBO: Multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition

This paper introduces the multigroup Kitagawa-Blinder-Oaxaca (mKBO) decomposition, a methodological innovation that extends the traditional KBO approach beyond binary group comparisons. While conventional KBO decompositions require potentially arbitrary choices of reference groups that can significantly affect results, the mKBO generalization uses the ...
Thaning, Max, Nieuwenhuis, Rense
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The Role of Religion in Shaping Perceived Security in Central Asia

Journal of Eurasian Studies
This article focuses on people’s perceptions of security in three Central Asian states—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Using the data from WVS (wave 7, 2017–2022), we sought to find how being religious is linked to people’s perceived security ...
Dina Sharipova, Alma Kudebayeva
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Poverty in Germany: Statistical Inference and Decomposition [PDF]

Based on six harmonized cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, we study inter-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003.
Carsten Schröder, Timm Bönke
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Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]

, 2005
The decomposition technique introduced by Blinder (1973) and Oaxaca (1973) is widely used to study outcome differences between groups. For example, the technique is commonly applied to the analysis of the gender wage gap. However, despite the procedure's frequent use, very little attention has been paid to the issue of estimating the sampling variances
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