This article introduces a novel approach to decomposing the Blinder-Oaxaca gender wage gap using pseudo-panel data. In many developing countries, panel data are not available; however, understanding the evolution of the gender wage gap over time requires tracking individuals longitudinally. When...

This paper proposes a unified framework to study the permanent and transitory origins of US economic fluctuations. The model provides a reasonable account of the evolution of the economy in the post-war period and of the recent inflation episode. Overall, it constitutes a comprehensive framework...

This paper analyses the gender pay gap in Slovakia, with an emphasis on the impact of motherhood, using Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The results indicate that the gender wage gap is 16.8%, while the gap between mothers and the rest of the workforce is even higher (18.3%). A significant share of...

Using data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE), this paper examines occupational pension income and coverage gaps between men and women. The focus is on a group of countries with comparable occupational pension regulations: Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands and Switzerland....

The objective of this paper is to provide a survey on the methods of demand-led decomposition and its different uses on the analyses of the patterns of growth, as well as some criticisms and limitations of such methods and analyses. We will present and compare the decompositions based on the...

Prediction methods have garnered significant attention in intelligent decision-making. Most existing approaches to predicting crude oil prices prioritize accuracy and stability while providing precise prediction intervals that can offer valuable insights. Thus far, we introduced a novel hybrid...

The balance between supply and demand influences inflation and understanding whether one factor predominates the other has significant implications for economic policy. Distinguishing the contributions of supply and demand factors to inflation offers insight into the primary drivers of inflation...

Using rich administrative data from 2005 to 2021 for Belgium, this paper analyses how earnings dynamics differ across socio-demographic groups, focusing on gender and education. We find that while permanent earnings inequality remains the dominant source of overall earnings inequality in...

The objective of this paper is to analyse profitability and risk through the return on equity (ROE) measure of the open economy insurance sector in a non-stable economic period with an economic shock chain, during the years 2018-2022, characterised by an overheating economy, the Covid pandemic,...

Financial studies on the herding effect have been very popular for decades, as detecting herding behavior helps to explain price deviations and market inefficiencies. However, studying the herding effect as a single influencing factor is believed to be insufficient to explain the changes in...

Wage growth is a key indicator of labor market conditions, but common measures often conflate individual wage changes with shifts in workforce composition. This paper develops a composition-adjusted measure of wage growth using nonparametric decomposition and program evaluation methods. The...

The paper analyses the relationship between human capital formation and income growth in Burkina Faso using data from household surveys conducted in 2009 and 2018. By combining estimates from multiple linear regressions of the impact of human capital variables on income with variance...

The present study investigates Vietnam's economic structural transformation from 2007 to 2023, identifying key sectors contributing to output growth and poverty reduction. The study is situated within the broader context of industrialization and sustainable development in emerging economies. It...

This paper establishes a theoretical link between actuarial neutrality and the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to empirically assess vertical equity in public defined-benefit schemes. We demonstrate how this approach can be generalized to non-linear functions, point systems, and notional accounts....