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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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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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 ...
Mathias Sinning +2 more
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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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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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PIN114 UNDERSTANDING CHANGES IN FULL CHILDHOOD IMMUNIZATION COVERAGE IN ETHIOPIA BETWEEN 2000 AND 2016: OAXACA-BLINDER DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS [PDF]
, 2019 Abrham Wondimu +4 more
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Unexplained Gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositions [PDF]
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naïve regression that includes a group indicator variable.
Elder, Todd E. +2 more
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Factors associated with socioeconomic inequalities in the use of dental services among Brazilian older adults: an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis. [PDF]
BMC Oral HealthBof de Andrade F +8 more
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