Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps [PDF]
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful insights about ...
Hugo Nopo
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The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for nonlinear regression models
In this article, a general Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for nonlinear models is derived, which allows the difference in an outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into several components.
Thomas K. Bauer +2 more
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Increasing Returns to Education and Progress towards a College Degree [PDF]
Returns to college have increased, but graduation rates have changed relatively little. Modifying a human capital model of college enrollment to endogenize time-to-graduation, we predict that higher returns to education will both speed graduation and ...
Leslie S Stratton, James N. Wetzel
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Socioeconomic inequality in cardio-metabolic risk factors in a nationally representative sample of Iranian adolescents using an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method: the CASPIAN-III study. [PDF]
J Diabetes Metab Disord, 2019 Shafiee G +9 more
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The Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for linear regression models
The counterfactual decomposition technique popularized by Blinder (1973, Journal of Human Resources, 436–455) and Oaxaca (1973, International Economic Review, 693–709) is widely used to study mean outcome differences between groups.
Ben Jann
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, 2011 Unemployment levels in South Africa are some of the highest in the world. Since the birth of democracy in 1994, the South African government has not only made employment a major focal point, but also the reduction in unemployment inequality. Using probit
Barnett, Luke
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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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Sources of Regional Income Disparity in Rural Vietnam: Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition
Sources of Regional Income Disparity in Rural Vietnam: Oaxaca-Blinder Decompositionapplication/pdf ...
openaire
The Impact of Changes in Nutritional Policy on the Determinants of Child Stunting: Evidence From the 2010 and 2022 Living Conditions Monitoring Surveys in Zambia. [PDF]
Food Sci NutrBwalya R, Kalinda T.
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Behind the North-South divide: A decomposition analysis
The paper applies modified Oaxaca-type analyses on the eighteen available waves of the British Household Panel Survey to decompose the wage gap among full time employees from either side of the North-South divide and identify its components that can be ...
Vizer, David
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