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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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