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The Development of Employers’ Training Investments Over Time – A Decomposition Analysis Using German Establishment Data [PDF]

Using establishment data covering the time period 1997 to 2007, this paper investigates trends of employer-sponsored further training in Germany, with a focus on the share of establishments investing in training.
Katja Goerlitz
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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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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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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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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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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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The effect of remote work on urban transportation emissions: Evidence from 141 cities

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
The overall impact of working from home (WFH) on transportation emissions remains a complex issue, with significant implications for policymaking. This study matches socioeconomic information from American Community Survey (ACS) to the global carbon ...
Sophia Shen, Xinyi Wang, Nicholas Caros, Jinhua Zhao   +3 more
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Gender Differences in Smoking Behavior [PDF]

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behavior using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder- Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in ...
Thomas Bauer, Silja Göhlmann, Mathias Sinning   +2 more
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The Effect of Discrimination on Wage Differentials Between Asians and Whites in the United States: An Empirical Approach

, 2011
Econometric analysis of person-level data from the American Community Survey collected over a 5-year period from 2005-2009 so as to provide empirical evidence and measurable effect of race discrimination on wage differentials between Asian Americans and ...
Dang, Doug
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The contribution of parity to ethnic differences in mothers' body mass index in the Netherlands: A Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition approach. [PDF]

Prev Med Rep, 2023
Çayci E, Zemouri C, van den Broek T.
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