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Evidence of a Growing Inequality in Work Timing Using a Japanese Time-Use Survey [PDF]

Using data from a Japanese time use survey, we show a noteworthy increase in the share of employees working unusual hours (late night and early morning) over a period of a decade since the mid 1990s. When controlling for changes in hours worked, however,
KURODA Sachiko, YAMAMOTO Isamu (Keio University)   +1 more
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DECOMPOSING THE GAP IN SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT BETWEEN FINLAND AND ROMANIA – SOME METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2012
This paper analyzes the advantages and shortcomings of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using PISA data for Finland and Romania, we focus on the drawbacks of the detailed decomposition, when the explanatory variables are categorial. From the best of our
Botezat Alina
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Decomposition of Economic Inequality in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Using Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition: Tehran Geriatric Eye Study

Ophthalmic Epidemiology
To investigate economic inequality in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and decompose it into its determinants using Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition (OBD). The Tehran Geriatric Eye Study was a cross-sectional study conducted on individuals aged 60 years and older, utilizing stratified random cluster sampling. Each participant received a comprehensive
Hassan Hashemi, Reza Pakzad, Mohamadreza Aghamirsalim, Alireza Hashemi, Mehdi Khabazkhoob   +4 more
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Sources of Welfare Disparities across and within Regions of Brazil: Evidence from the 2002-03 Household Budget Survey [PDF]

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes.
Katayama, Roy, Skoufias, Emmanuel
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Spatial and Inter-temporal Sources of Poverty, Inequality and Gender Disparities in Cameroon: a Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis

This study applies the regression-based inequality decomposition technique to explain poverty and inequality trends in Cameroon. We also identify gender related factors which explain income disparities and discrimination based on the 2001 and 2007 ...
Nadine Teme Angele Manga, Francis Menjo Baye, Boniface Ngah Epo   +2 more
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Accounting for heterogeneity in growth incidence in Cameroon [PDF]

This paper presents counterfactual decompositions based on both the Shapley method and a generalization of the Oaxaca-Blinder approach to identify proximate factors that might explain differences in the distribution of economic welfare in Cameroon in ...
Paul, Saumik, Bassol3, Leandre, Essama-Nssah, , B.   +2 more
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Description of counterfactual manner of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach.

Description of counterfactual manner of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach.
Katharina E. Blankart (18496092), Sotiris Vandoros (18496095)   +1 more
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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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Sources of Regional Income Disparity in Rural Vietnam: Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition

, 2007
This paper investigates determinants of regional income disparity in rural Vietnam, with special emphasis placed on the roles of human capital and land. We apply a decomposition method, suggested by Oaxaca and Blinder. We found that returns to assets rather than endowments, especially those of human capital, are one of the leading factors to account ...
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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, Benmarhnia T, Spilka S, Beck F, Andler R, Legleye S, Menvielle G.   +6 more
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