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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Temporal reliability test of nonconsumptive wildlife recreation benefits constructed from choke price data [PDF]
Choke price data from the 2001 and 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR) is used to construct welfare measures for wildlife-watching trips.
Jee W Hwang
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BarekengGender inequality persists as an ongoing challenge, particularly evident in the persistent wage gap which often stems from entrenched societal perceptions that restrict women into subordinate roles.
Aisyah ‘Azizah Nur Rahmah +1 more
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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition Technique to Logit and Probit Models [PDF]
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group differences in measurable characteristics, such as education, experience, marital status, and geographical differences to racial and ...
Robert W. Fairlie
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Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]
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
Ben Jann
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Determinants of household adoption of clean energy with its rural–urban disparities in Bangladesh
Scientific ReportsThis study aims to investigate factors influencing the adoption of clean energy among households in Bangladesh, using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition and extended probit regression model with data from the 2019 Bangladesh multiple indicator cluster survey ...
Iqramul Haq +7 more
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Differences in Men’s and Women’s Wages in the Education Sector in the Baltic Sea Region States
Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2018 In the presented study, we analyse the men and women wage differences in the education sector and in the group of people employed as professional teachers in the Baltic Sea Region countries.
Matuszewska-Janica Aleksandra
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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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BMC Public HealthBackground Anxiety is a severe global health problem. The long-established urban-rural dichotomy in China has led to unequal development in rural and urban areas, which may result in significant differences in the anxiety of rural and urban China ...
Xuange Sun +5 more
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Spatial and Inter-temporal Sources of Poverty, Inequality and Gender Disparities in Cameroon: a Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis [PDF]
This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in Cameroon. We also identify gender related factors which explain income disparities and discrimination based on the 2001 and 2007 ...
Nadine Teme Angele Manga +2 more
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