The major contribution of this paper is ending a new and flexible way to measure the effects of selection on log-wages. In this context, we offer a general approach to performing decomposition analysis when selection effects are present. We call the difference between unconditional and...

In der neoklassischen ökonomischen Theorie wird das individuelle Einkommen durch die individuelle Job-Performanz bestimmt. Somit reflektiert ein hohes Einkommen eine hohe marginale Arbeitsproduktivität der reichen Arbeitenden. Während die wissenschaftliche Forschung zur Armut eine lange...

INTRODUCTION: The number of patients with chronic renal disease (CRD) has grown in the world as a whole. Beyond the increase in public expenditure, this disease has brought other economic implications. The objective this paper is to estimate wage discrimination between two groups: individuals...

This paper directs interest on country-specific labour market discrimination Roma may suffer in South East Europe. The study lies in the tradition of statistical Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition analysis. We use microdata from UNDP’s 2004 survey of Roma minorities, and apply a Bayesian approach,...

This study applies the extension of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition developed by Albrecht, van Vuuren and Vroman (2009) to analyze the gender wage gap with selection correction in Uruguay. The wage gap is increasing in the upper part of the wage distribution suggesting a glass ceiling...