Shadow Employment In Transition - A Matter of Choice or No Choice? [PDF]
Shadow employment may follow from two main labour market failures. In the first, official market labour taxation distortions make it ineffective for some agents to engage in registered employment due to a tax wedge, which makes the revenues from ...
Joanna Tyrowicz, Stanisław Cichocki
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Empirical likelihood inference for Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition
Empirical likelihood inference for Oaxaca-Blinder decompositionThis paper proposes an empirical likelihood inference method for the Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions. In contrast to the conventional Wald statistic using the delta method, our approach circumvents the linearization errors and estimation of the variance terms.
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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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Are immigrants so stuck to the floor that the ceiling is irrelevant? [PDF]
In this paper, the immigrant-native wage differential is explained through quantile regression estimations. Using repeated cross-sections of the British Labour Force Survey from 1993-2005, we analyse the returns to covariates across the conditional ...
Hunt, Priscillia
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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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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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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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Getting What (Employers Think) You’re Worth – Evidence on the Gender Gap in Entry Wages among University Graduates [PDF]
Since the early 1970s, wage differentials between men and women have attracted the research interest of labor economists. However, up to now empirical evidence on gender differentials of labor market entrants and the determinants of their starting wages ...
Julia Bredtmann, Sebastian Otten
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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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Determinants of Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from Russian Regions [PDF]
A modification of Barro and Sala-i-Martin empirical framework of growth model is specified to examine determinants of per capita growth in 74 Russian regions during period of 1996-2005. We utilize both panel and cross-sectional data.
Mikael Linden, Svetlana Ledyaeva
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