Search Results - subject:"quantile regression"

The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions: The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...

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Differences in Wage Distributions between Natives, Non-Refugees, and Refugees

Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This study examines differences in wage distributions between natives, non-refugees, and refugees in Sweden. We find that the wage differentials between natives and non-refugee immigrants decrease across the distribution, while those between natives and refugee immigrants increase. There is...

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Part-Time Penalty in Sweden: Evidence from Quantile Regression

Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

This study analyzes the part-time penalty in Sweden using quantile regression. We find that the estimated part …

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The Gender Wage Gap across the Wage Distribution in the Private and Public Sectors

Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2008

using quantile regression. Women have lower wages than men across the entire wage distribution. The gender gap increases …

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The Impact of Remittances on Economic Growth and Development in Africa.

Fayissa, Bichaka; Nsiah, Christian - Economics and Finance Department, Jennings A. Jones … - 2008

For more than half a century, there have been heated debates on the sources of economic growth in developing economies. The perceived factors of economic growth have ranged from surplus labor to capital investment and technological change, foreign aid, foreign direct investment, investment in...

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The Economic Returns to Field of Study and Competencies Among Higher Education Graduates in Ireland

Kelly, Elish; O'Connell, Philip; Smyth, Emer - Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) - 2008

these issues the paper seeks to control for potential selection influences by ensuring through quantile regression that … & Architecture, Science and Computers & IT. The quantile regression analysis reveals that the OLS estimates are not particularly …

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The Stochastic Fluctuation of the Quantile Regression Curve

Härdle, Wolfgang; Song, Song - Sonderforschungsbereich 649: Ökonomisches Risiko, … - 2008

Let (X1, Y1), . . ., (Xn, Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the unknown p-quantile regression curve of Y on X. A … SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2008-027 The Stochastic Fluctuation of the Quantile Regression … Quantile Regression∗ Wolfgang K. H¨ardle †, Song Song ‡ Abstract Let (X1,Y1), ..., (Xn,Yn) be i.i.d. rvs and let l(x) be the un …

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Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms

Pendakur, Krishna; Woodcock, Simon - Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University - 2008

We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers' poor access to high-wage jobs---that is, glass ceilings---is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage...

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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

distribution during 1983-1993; however, it increased only in the upper half of the wage distribution during 1993-2004. Quantile … regression analysis reveals that the effects of many covariates are not constant across the wage distribution. Moreover …

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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden – Capitalist Dynasties in the Land of Equal Opportunity?

Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on intergenerational mobility in the top of the income and earnings distribution. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden, we find that intergenerational transmission is very strong in the top, more so for income than for earnings. In the...

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