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Quantile treatment effects of Riester participation on wealth

Ihle, Dorothee - 2017

employ an instrumental quantile regression approach using Riester eligibility as instrument for Riester participation. The …

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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution

Collischon, Matthias - 2017

contribution of multiple variables within a quantile-regression framework, I propose a new statistic that quantifies the rise in …

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Detailed RIF Decomposition with Selection - The Gender Pay Gap in Italy

Töpfer, Marina - 2017

In this paper, we estimate the gender pay gap along the wage distribution using a detailed decomposition approach based on unconditional quantile regressions. Non-randomness of the sample leads to biased and inconsistent estimates of the wage equation as well as of the components of the wage...

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Different Faces of Inequality across Asia: Decomposition of Income Gaps across Demographic Groups

Hlasny, Vladimir - 2017

Economic inequality across Asia has been growing, but dimensions of this inequality and their development are unclear. This paper evaluates income inequality using household surveys from China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and Taiwan. These countries may be viewed as jointly representative of...

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Leverage and capital structure determinants of Chinese listed companies

Ferrarini, Benno; Hinojales, Marthe; Scaramozzino, Pasquale - 2017

Total debt in the People's Republic of China has increased significantly in recent years, mostly on account of nonfinancial corporate debt. Earning and the financial performance of corporate firms have weakened, and so has the asset quality of the financial sector. This paper assesses the...

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Detailed RIF decomposition with selection: The gender pay gap in Italy

Töpfer, Marina - 2017

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The older, the richer? A decomposition of wealth inequality by age subgroups

Ihle, Dorothee; Siebert-Meyerhoff, Andrea - 2017

differences due to age. Secondly, unconditional quantile regression is used to examine the effects of age on different points of …

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Behavioral Responses and Welfare Reform: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

Hartley, Robert Paul; Lamarche, Carlos - 2017

Recent studies have used a distributional analysis of welfare reform experiments suggesting that some individuals reduce hours in order to opt into welfare, an example of behavioral-induced participation. Using data on Connecticut's Jobs First experiment, we find no evidence of...

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Heterogeneity in residential electricity consumption: A quantile regression approach

Frondel, Manuel; Sommer, Stephan; Vance, Colin - 2017

effects, we combine the conditional demand approach with quantile regression methods to capture the heterogeneity in the … the opposite tails of the electricity consumption distribution, highlighting the added value of applying quantile … regression methods in estimating consumption rates of electric appliances. …

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Technology-driven information sharing and conditional financial development in Africa

Asongu, Simplice; Anyanwu, John C.; Tchamyou, Vanessa S. - 2017

Information technology is increasingly facilitating mechanisms by which information asymmetry between lenders and borrowers in the financial sector can be reduced in order to enhance financial access for human and economic development in developing countries. We examine conditional financial...

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