DECOMPOSING INCOME DIFFERENTIALS BETWEEN ROMA AND NON-ROMA IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE [PDF]
The paper decomposes average income differentials between Roma and non-Roma in South East Europe into the component that can be explained by group differences in income-related characteristics (characteristics effect), and the component which is due to ...
Susanne Milcher
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Why do apprentices smoke much more than high school students? Understanding educational disparities in smoking with a Oaxaca-blinder decomposition analysis. [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2020 Chyderiotis S +6 more
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Measuring Selectivity-Corrected Gender Wage Gaps in the EU [PDF]
We investigate different techniques to assess the gender pay gap in five EU countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and United Kingdom), focusing on self-selection into market work.
Beblo, Miriam +3 more
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A matching decomposition of the rural-urban difference in malnutrition in Malawi [PDF]
This paper applies a nonparametric matching method to decompose the rural-urban malnutrition gap in Malawi. The results show that 90 per cent and 89 per cent of the stunting and underweight gaps respectively would be eliminated if there were no urban ...
Mussa, Richard
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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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Shadow Employment In Transition - A Matter of Choice or No Choice? [PDF]
Shadow employment may follow from two main labour market failures. In the first, official market labour taxation distortions make it ineffective for some agents to engage in registered employment due to a tax wedge, which makes the revenues from ...
Joanna Tyrowicz, Stanisław Cichocki
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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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Rural-Urban Differences in Parental Spending on Children’s Primary Education in Malawi [PDF]
The paper investigates two issues regarding household expenditure on primary education of own children using the Second Malawi Integrated Household Survey (IHS2) data.
Richard Mussa
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Changes in Perceived Accessibility to Healthcare from the Elderly between 2005 and 2014 in China: An Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition Analysis. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2019 Zhang T, Liu J, Liu C.
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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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