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Estudios Económicos, 2020 A nivel mundial, la fabricación de ropa se caracteriza por las adversas condiciones laborales que sufren sus trabajadores. Con un abordaje metodológico cuantitativo, este artículo analiza la relación entre los atributos observables tanto individuales ...
Gustavo Ludmer, Federico Favata
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The Evolving Role of 21st Century Municipal Financial Advisors
Public Budgeting &Finance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We describe the evolution of the market for municipal financial advice since the year 2000 and present new empirical facts. Using SEC municipal advisor filings, we show that the number of operating advisors has decreased over time. We document that withdrawals—either exits, reorganizations, or mergers—are concentrated among smaller firms and ...
Daniel G. Garrett, Baridhi Malakar
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The Role of Skills and Tasks in Gender Gaps in Latin America
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we explore gender gaps in the labor market in Latin America, incorporating two relevant factors often overlooked: skills and the type of tasks performed at work. The study is based on data from the 2018 Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) for four Latin American countries.
Cristian Bonavida, Leonardo Gasparini
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The Mystery of Success: How Family Background Shapes Social Mobility
Review of Income and Wealth, Volume 72, Issue 3, August 2026.ABSTRACT This study examines social mobility and its underlying drivers in Switzerland. We use a rich administrative dataset covering nearly 700,000 individuals across 23 birth cohorts. Rather than relying on traditional parent–child associations, we quantify the overall influence of familial factors, providing a wide‐ranging indicator of social ...
Jonas Bühler +2 more
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Pseudo-Panel Decomposition of the Blinder–Oaxaca Gender Wage Gap
EconometricsThis article introduces a novel approach to decomposing the Blinder–Oaxaca gender wage gap using pseudo-panel data. In many developing countries, panel data are not available; however, understanding the evolution of the gender wage gap over time requires
Jhon James Mora, Diana Yaneth Herrera
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Diferença de renda entre mulheres empreendedoras e assalariadas
Economia Aplicada, 2022 O objetivo desse artigo é investigar o diferencial de rendimentos entre mulheres empreendedoras e assalariadas usando a Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) de 2015.
Samanda Silva da Rosa +2 more
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Health Economics, Volume 35, Issue 6, Page 929-946, June 2026.ABSTRACT The fiscal sustainability of healthcare systems is increasingly strained by aging populations with two competing hypotheses dominating the literature. The Red Herring Hypothesis suggests that healthcare expenditures are driven more by proximity to death than by chronological age, while the Steepening Hypothesis examines whether expenditures ...
Malene Kallestrup‐Lamb +2 more
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, 2019 Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis for the racial disparity in influenza vaccination between Black and White* KPMAS patients.
Michael A. Horberg (486298) +4 more
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Economic Record, Volume 102, Issue 337, Page 250-295, June 2026.We investigate whether being female, Indigenous, from a non‐English speaking background (NESB) or having a disability affects career advancement in the Australian Public Service. Over the past 20 years, women have become more likely to get promoted at senior ranks than similar men and just as likely at junior ranks. NESB staff have much lower promotion
Robert Breunig, David Hansell, Nu Nu Win
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Standard Errors for the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]
, 2005 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
Jann, Ben
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