An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups

This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).

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Year of publication:	2007
Authors:	Ñopo, Hugo
Publisher:	Bonn : Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Subject:	Dekompositionsverfahren \| Mikroökonometrie \| Lohndifferenzierung \| Ethnische Diskriminierung \| Städtischer Arbeitsmarkt \| Peru

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Series:	IZA Discussion Papers ; 2921
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	552644781 [GVK] hdl:10419/34298 [Handle]
Source:	EconStor

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