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A Note on Decomposing Differences in Poverty Incidence Using Regression Estimates: Algorithm and Example

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper decomposes differences in poverty incidence (head count ratio) using estimates from a regression equation, synthesizing the approaches proposed in World Bank (2003) and Yun (2004). A significance test is developed for characteristics and coefficients effects when decomposing...

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Decomposing Differences in the First Moment

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a non-linear function for both aggregate and detailed decompositions.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233909

A Continuous Labour Supply Model in Microsimulation: A Life-Cycle Modelling Approach with Heterogeneity and Uncertainty Extension

Li, Jinjing; Sologon, Denisa Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper advances a structural inter-temporal model of labour supply that is able to simulate the dynamics of labour supply in a continuous setting and to circumvent two main drawbacks of most of the existing models. The first limitation is the inability to incorporate individual heterogeneity...

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On the Dynamics of Interstate Migration: Migration Costs and Self-Selection

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper develops a tractable dynamic microeconomic model of migration decisions that is aggregated to describe the behavior of interregional migration. Our structural approach allows us to deal with dynamic self-selection problems that arise from the endogeneity of location choice and the...

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Electoral Rules and Politicians’ Behavior: A Micro Test

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Theory predicts that the majoritarian electoral system should produce more targeted redistribution and lower politicians’ rents than proportional representation. We test these predictions using micro data for the mixed-member Italian House of Representatives, which allow us to sidestep the...

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Revisiting Inter-Industry Wage Differentials and the Gender Wage Gap: An Identification Problem

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We propose a measure of the industrial gender wage gap which is free from an identification problem by using inter-industry wage differentials, or industrial wage premia. We draw on a recent literature showing that a normalized regression equation can be used to resolve the identification...

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Industry Wage Differentials Revisited: A Longitudinal Comparison of Germany and USA (1984-1996)

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

-Economic Panel (GSOEP), the German Mikrozensus (MZ), the American Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) and the American Current … resembles the American structure strongly. Cross-sectional and panel results are provided for both countries. Controlling for … unobserved heterogeneity in the random effects panel estimations reduces the industry wage dispersion by about half. Thus …

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Evaluation of a Tax Reform: A Model with Measurement Error

Euwals, Rob - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Parts of the Dutch tax reform 2001 are directed towards fiscal partners in a household and aim at lowering the marginal tax burden of the partner with the lowest (potential) labour income. An important goal of the reform is to increase the employment rate of these partners, which are in majority...

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A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect attributed to a dummy variable is not invariant to the choice of reference groups. It turns out that the...

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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...

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