Rhetoric in Economic Research: The Case of Gender Wage Differentials [PDF]
Scientific rhetoric can have a profound impact on the perception of research; it can also drive and direct further research efforts. What determines whether results are discussed in a neutral or a judgmental way?
Weichselbaumer, Doris +1 more
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Understanding the Improvement in Full Childhood Vaccination Coverage in Ethiopia Using Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Analysis. [PDF]
Vaccines (Basel), 2020 Wondimu A +5 more
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Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighboorhoods [PDF]
The dramatic rise in the U.S. homeownership rate from 64% in 1996 to almost 70% in 2005 has prompted increased attention to the relation between homeownership and demographic characteristics of households.
Anthony Yezer, Paul Carrillo
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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide [PDF]
Ethnic differences are often considered to be powerful sources of diverse economic behavior. In this paper, we investigate whether and how ethnicity affects Ukrainian labor market outcomes.
Amelie Constant +2 more
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Gender wage gap by occupational groups in Poland [PDF]
, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to analyse the gender wage gap in Poland in different occupational groups. The authors aim to investigate how much of the raw differences in wages can be explained by differences in personal characteristics and in which ...
Konopczak, Karolina +3 more
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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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Differences in waiting times for elective admissions in NSW public hospitals: A decomposition analysis by non-clinical factors. CHERE Working Paper 2010/7 [PDF]
In the Australian public health system, access to elective surgery is rationed through provision of health care services, it is generally assumed that a patient?s waiting time and locations.
Elizabeth Savage +4 more
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Decomposing Differences in the First Moment [PDF]
, 2003 We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a non-linear function for both aggregate and ...
Yun, Myeong-Su
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Brazilian Female Labor Market: Racial-Skin Color Discrimination
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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Are all migrants really worse off in urban labour markets: new empirical evidence from China. [PDF]
The rapid and massive increase in rural-to-urban worker flows to the coast of China has drawn recent attention to the welfare of migrants working in urban regions, particularly to their working conditions and pay; serious concern is raised regarding pay ...
Gagnon, Jason +2 more
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