Search Results - subject:"Quantile regression decomposition"

Hassine, Nadia Belhaj - In: World Development 66 (2015) C, pp. 532-556

The paper assesses the levels and determinants of economic inequality in 12 Arab countries using harmonized household survey micro-data. It focuses on the sources of rural–urban, as well as metropolitan–nonmetropolitan, inequalities.

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What if you had been less fortunate : The effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes

Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - In: Journal of Economic Studies 42 (2015) 1, pp. 20-33

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to the experience of poverty or poor family background during one’s childhood. Design/methodology/approach – With...

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Economic inequality in the Arab region

Belhaj Hassine, Nadia - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 66 (2015), pp. 532-556

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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes ; special issue paper

Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - In: Journal of economic studies 42 (2015) 1, pp. 20-33

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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: evidence from quantile regression decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - 2008

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but most of them focus on income or earnings inequality. In this paper, we investigate the consumption disparity between urban and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our...

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Changes in Wage Structure in Urban India, 1983-2004: A Quantile Regression Decomposition

Azam, Mehtabul - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2008

This paper examines changes in the wage structure in urban India during the past two decades (1983-2004) across the entire wage distribution using the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition approach. Real wages increased throughout the wage distribution during 1983-1993; however, it increased only in...

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Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

ABSTRACT Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression Decomposition …-rural disparity. JEL Classification: O18, O53, C15 Keywords: inequality, consumption, quantile regression decomposition …IZA DP No. 3659 Urban-Rural Consumption Inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: Evidence from Quantile Regression …

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Alternative Measures of Homeownership Gaps Across Segregated Neighboorhoods

Carrillo, Paul; Yezer, Anthony - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2008

The dramatic rise in the U.S. homeownership rate from 64% in 1996 to almost 70% in 2005 has prompted increased attention to the relation between homeownership and demographic characteristics of households. The recent rise and sharp decline of subprime lending will likely spur interest in the...

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Is there an informal employment wage premium? Evidence from Tajikistan

Staneva, Anita; Arabsheibani, G - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-24

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Differences in the earnings distribution of self- and dependent emploxed German men - evidence from a quantile regression decomposition analysis

Braakmann, Nils - 2007

This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel of the years 2000 to 2005 to study the earnings differential between self- and dependent employed German men. Constructing a counterfactual earnings distribution for the self-employed German dependant employment and using quantile...

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