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Exploiting information from path dependency in Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition procedures

Applied Economics Letters, 2004
This paper argues that path dependency in Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition procedures should not be considered as a limitation and provides valuable information. Illustration is given for the evaluation of racial discrimination on health in South Africa for 1999.
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Using the oaxaca–blinder decomposition as an empirical tool to analyze racial disparities in obesity

Obesity, 2014
ObjectiveRacial disparities in obesity in the US are often assumed to reflect racial disparities in socio‐economic status, diet and physical‐activity. We present an econometric method that helps examine this by “decomposing” the racial gap in body‐mass index (BMI) into how much can be explained by racial differences in “standard” predictors of BMI, and
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Differences in entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students: evidence from an Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition

Entrepreneurship Education, 2018
China has been characterized by sharp regional differences in quality of higher education. Using the data from a field survey on the entrepreneurial intentions of Chinese college students, this work adopts the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition method to assess the extent and the determinants of the disparity of entrepreneurial intentions of college students
Peng Bin, Li Wang, Yifan Wang, Rui Hu
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A New Extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition: An Application to the Gender Wage Gap in Australia

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
This paper argues that the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition incompletely decomposes the mean wage difference between two comparative groups into a portion that is explainable by differences in characteristics, and a portion that is attributable to differences in the valuation of these characteristics. As a result, studies on earnings inequalities that rely
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Decomposition of Economic Inequality in Cataract Surgery Using Oaxaca Blinder Decomposition: Tehran Geriatric Eye Study (TGES)

Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2022
Hassan Hashemi, Reza Pakzad, Mehdi Khabazkhoob   +2 more
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Comparison of second-child fertility intentions between local and migrant women in urban China: a Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2021
Min Zhou, Wei Guo
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Diversification Discount Revisited: An Application of the Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013
Markus Brendel, Christin Rudolph, Bernhard Schwetzler   +2 more
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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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Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of gender pay gap: The case of the Czech Republic

AIP Conference Proceedings, 2023
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Wages differentials in Ecuador: A regional approach with sample selection of Heckman and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition [PDF]

, 2012
This paper estimates and decomposes wage differentials in Ecuador. Is corrected by self-selection bias with the two-step methodology proposed by Heckman (1979) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition (1973) is checked whether the differences found are due to the initial endowment of human capital or potential discrimination.
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