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Determinants of South African Women’s Labour Force Participation, 1995-2004

Ntuli, Miracle - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

utilises a decomposition technique devised by Even and Macpherson (1990). The findings exhibit that female participation …

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Inequality and deprivation within and between groups: An illustration of European union countries

Bárcena-Martín, Elena; Imedio-Olmedo, Luis; … - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 5 (2007) 3, pp. 323-337

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Removing the anonymity axiom in assessing pro-poor growth

Grimm, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 5 (2007) 2, pp. 179-197

suggest an original decomposition of poverty changes over time which links both concepts. The results show that the choice of …

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A Shapley-based decomposition of the R-Square of a linear regression

Israeli, Osnat - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 5 (2007) 2, pp. 199-212

decomposition values: the trade-off between marginality and consistency. THEMA Discussion Paper, Université de Cergy …-Pontoise, France 1999; Shorrocks, Decomposition Procedures for Distributional Analysis: A Unified Framework Based on the Shapley Value … (mimeo), University of Essex, 1999) with the Fields (Res. Labor Econ., 22:1–38, 2003) decomposition. Copyright Springer …

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Wage differences between Austrian men and women: semper idem?

Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - In: Empirica 34 (2007) 3, pp. 213-229

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Analysis of the co-movement between Chinese and international crude oil price

Jiao, Jian-Lin; Fan, Ying; Wei, Yi-Ming; Han, Zhi-Yong; … - In: International Journal of Global Energy Issues 27 (2007) 1, pp. 61-76

Crude oil price has an important effect on national economic production and safety-stock. In this paper, we analysed the trends of Chinese and international crude oil prices and their fluctuations by testing the Granger causality and the dynamic effects to its counterpart. Results show that from...

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The influence of firm, industry and network on the corporate social performance of Japanese firms

K. O’Shaughnessy; Gedajlovic, Eric; Reinmoeller, Patrick - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 24 (2007) 3, pp. 283-303

industry and inter-corporate network. Using variance decomposition, we analyze data from 130 large Japanese firms and find that …

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The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?

Síle O’Dorchai; Plasman, Robert; Rycx, François - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Economic theory advances a number of reasons for the existence of a wage gap between part-time and full-time workers. Empirical work has concentrated on the wage effects of parttime work for women. For men, much less empirical evidence exists, mainly because of lacking data. In this paper, we...

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Unequal Chances on the Transitional Labor Market: The Case of the Netherlands

Bijwaard, Govert; Veenman, Justus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

The emergence of a transitional labor market offers new opportunities to workers, but at the same time bears the risk of (new) inequalities. This paper deals with unequal chances on the transitional labor market in the Netherlands, in particular for workers from the four largest immigrant...

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An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups

Ñopo, Hugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The … proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set …

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