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A detailed decomposition analysis of the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa
Kwenda-Magejo, Prudence; Benhura, Miracle - 2015
The present study examines the public-private sector wage gap in South Africa using individual cross section data for 2000-7. Results from unconditional quantile regressions and generalised Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions show that the wage gap is inverted-U shaped across the wage...
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Sources of increased wage differentials in the Finnish private sector
Asplund, Rita - 2009
notably stronger force behind widening wage differentials in the lower tail of the distribution. -- decomposition …
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The role of the firm in worker wage dispersion : an analysis of the Ghanaian manufacturing sector
Chatterjee, Somdeep - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-21
variance decomposition approaches to understand the underlying factors that led to such a pattern in earnings inequality. I …
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …
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Changes in the gender pay gap over time : the case of West Germany
Bonaccolto-Töpfer, Marina; Castagnetti, Carolina; … - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
and often concentrates on the USA. We present both an aggregate and detailed decomposition of changes in wages allowing us … to directly test for changes in the components of the decomposition across gender and time. Apart from standard OLS, we …
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What if you had been less fortunate : the effects of poor family background on current labor market outcomes
Cho, Sungwook; Heshmati, Almas - 2013
Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression technique and decomposition method are conducted to identify and …
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Decomposing wage discrimination in Germany and Austria with counterfactual densities
Grandner, Thomas; Gstach, Dieter - 2012
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From the bottom to the top: a more complete picture of the immigrant-native wage gap in Britain
Hunt, Priscillia - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper investigates wage assimilation of foreign-born male workers in Britain over the period 1993 to 2009. Using Labour Force Survey data, the paper employs a methodology (Blinder-Oaxaca quantile regressions) to decompose the immigrant-native wage differential at the mean and across the...
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On the determinants of changes in wage inequality in Bolivia
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2015
, while also presenting a decrease in inequality. Using an intertemporal decomposition approach, we find evidence that changes …
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Gender wage gap trends in Europe : the role of occupational allocation and skill prices
Kaya, Ezgi - 2014
In this paper, we explore the recent gender wage gap trends in a sample of European countries with a new approach that uses the direct measures of skill requirements of jobs held by men and women. We find that, during the 1990s and 2000s, the gender wage gap declined in the majority of the...
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