After the reforms: Determinants of wage growth and change in wage inequality in Vietnam: 1998-2008 [PDF]
The Vietnam ―renovation‖ reforms were implemented during the 1990s, but their full effect was only felt many years later. We present evidence on the developments in real wage growth and inequality in Vietnam from 1998 to 2008.
Fang, Zheng, Sakellariou, Chris
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Double burden of malnutrition among women and children in Zimbabwe: a pooled logistic regression and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis. [PDF]
Front Public HealthLukwa AT +4 more
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Down from the Mountain: Skill Upgrading and Wages in Appalachia [PDF]
Despite evidence that skilled labor is increasingly concentrated in cities, whether regional wage inequality is predominantly due to differences in skill levels or returns is unknown.
Bollinger, Christopher R. +2 more
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Labour Market Racial Discrimination in South Africa Revisited [PDF]
Discrimination is a significant issue in labour market economics across developed as well as developing countries. In this paper, we inquire the actual size of wage discrimination in the Republic of South Africa, accounting for large differences in ...
Joanna Tyrowicz, Maciej Szelewicki
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Temporal variation of chronic child malnutrition in the context of strengthening healthcare services in Burkina Faso: an Oaxaca-Blinder multivariate decomposition analysis. [PDF]
Front Public HealthSawadogo PM +2 more
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Obstacles to Business, Technology Use, and Firms with Female Principal Owners in Kenya [PDF]
Data on 778 establishments indicates that firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, generators, and cell-phones to conduct operations when regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance pose significant hurdles in ...
Nidhiya Menon
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Gender-Specific Occupational Segregation, Glass Ceiling Effects, and Earnings in Managerial Positions: Results of a Fixed Effects Model [PDF]
The study analyses the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) for the years 2001-2008.
Busch, Anne, Holst, Elke
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Is There a Gap in the Gap? Regional Differences in the Gender Pay Gap [PDF]
In this paper, we investigate regional differences in the gender pay gap both theoretically and empirically. Within a spatial oligopsony model, we show that more densely populated labour markets are more competitive and constrain employers' ability to ...
Hirsch, Boris +2 more
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Produtividade e salários: uma análise baseada na decomposição de Oaxaca Blinder
, 2019 Hodiernamente, o termo produtividade é utilizado em diversos contextos, principalmente económicos. Este conceito ficou em voga devido, principalmente, à crise económica vivenciada nos últimos anos. Muitos acreditam que a baixa produtividade foi um fator crucial para a difícil recuperação da crise económica, mas, muitas vezes, as pessoas fazem uso do ...
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Mesurer la discrimination salariale ? Une critique radicale de la décomposition de Oaxaca-Blinder
, 2020 Ce texte propose une critique radicale de la décomposition de Oaxaca-Blinder appliquée aux inégalités salariales. Cette méthode décompose un écart salarial entre deux groupes entre une part « expliquée » par les différences de compétences et une part « inexpliquée » appelée effets de la discrimination.
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