Purpose: This paper examines the level and structure of the wage inequality between nonrefugee and refugee workers in Palestine and the extent to which such wage gap reflects any marginalization and discrimination against refugees. It also investigates how the disparities in distribution to...

This paper presents an extension to the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition with continuous groups using a semiparametric approach known as varying coefficients model. To account for potential self-selection into the continuum of groups, the use of inverse mills ratios is expanded upon following the...

Unconditional quantile regressions, as introduced by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009), are a special case of Recentered Influence Functions (RIF) Regressions that can be used to relate how small changes in the distributions of explanatory variables affect an unconditional statistic of interest....

This paper takes advantage of repeated cross-section household surveys and a sharp discontinuity created by the introduction of an unconditional cash transfer to elders. The paper evaluates the impact of these cash transfers on the educational expenditures for children within a household. The...

This paper describes the quality of the statistical matching between the March 2014 supplementto the Current Population Survey (CPS) and the 2013 American Time Use Survey (ATUS) andSurvey of Consumer Finances (SCF), which are used as the basis for the 2013 Levy InstituteMeasure of Economic...

This paper documents the sources of data used in the construction of the estimates of the LevyInstitute Measure of Economic Wellbeing (LIMEW) for the years 1959, 1972, 1982, 1989, 1992,1995, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010, and 2013. It also documents the methods used to combinethe various sources...