Search Results - subject:"quantile regression"

Building the Minimum Wage: Germany's First Sectoral Minimum Wage and Its Impact on Wages in the Construction Industry

Rattenhuber, Pia - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...

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Skills and wage inequality in Greece: evidence from matched employer-employee data, 1995-2002

Christopoulou, Rebekka; Kosma, Theodora - European Central Bank - 2011

This paper examines changes in the Greek wage distribution over 1995-2002 and the role of skills in these changes using a matched employer-employee data set. This data set enables us to account for firm heterogeneity and obtain a more refined picture of the impact of skills. The methodology...

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Wage Differentials between Native and Immigrant Women in Spain: Accounting for Differences in the Supports

Nicodemo, Catia; Ramos, Raul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The objective of the study is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. Using the microdata from the Social Security Records (MCVL) and with a matching procedure of...

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Intangibles and the gender wage gap: An analysis of gender wage gaps across occupations in the Finnish private sector

Asplund, Rita; Napari, Sami - Elinkeinoelämän Tutkimuslaitos (ETLA) - 2011

unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key factors underlying the gender wage gaps observed along the whole wage …

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Economic Growth and Government Size in OECD Countries: New Evidence from the Quantile Regression Approach

Chen, Sheng-Tung; Chen, Chi-Chung; Kim, Yoonbai - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 1, pp. 416-425

The purpose of this paper is to employ the quantile regression methodology to investigate the relationship between …

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Education and Household Welfare in Sri Lanka from 1985 to 2006

Himaz, Rozana; Aturupane, Harsha - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011

2006 using five cross section household survey datasets. Applying quantile regression techniques the analysis finds that …

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - Türkiye Ekonomi Kurumu - TEK - 2011

Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined …

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Unconditional Quantile Regression for Exogenous or Endogenous Treatment Variables

Powell, David - RAND - 2011

This paper introduces an unconditional quantile regression (UQR) estimator that can be used for exogenous or endogenous …

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Wage Inequality and Returns to Education in Turkey: A Quantile Regression Analysis

Tansel, Aysit; Bircan, Fatma - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 2011

Mincerian wage equations using OLS and quantile regression techniques. Male wage inequality is high in Turkey. While it declined …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836226

Framing the empirical findings on firm growth

Capasso, Marco; Cefis, Elena; Sapio, Sandro - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Scuola … - 2011

rate distribution and confirm the skewness-size and the variance-size relations. The identified quantile regression … skewness and size. A relationship between quantile regression patterns and previous findings is therefore uncovered. …

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