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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015
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Returns to Schooling in Russia and Ukraine : A Semiparametric Approach to Cross-Country Comparative Analysis
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
decomposition techniques. Using semiparametric methods, we construct counterfactual wage distributions for university and secondary …
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Wage Differences Between Men and Women in Austria: Evidence from 1983 and 1997
Böheim, René; Hofer, Helmut; Zulehner, Christine - 2005
-economic determinants of the gender wage gap in Austria, for the years 1983 and 1997. Using wage decomposition techniques, we find that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262658
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique to logit and probit models
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006
The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … thorough discussion of how to apply the technique, an analysis of the sensitivity of the decomposition estimates to different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267328
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A note on decompositions in fixed effects models in the presence of time-invariant characteristics
Heitmüller, Axel - 2005
of the Oaxaca (1973) decomposition as discrimination rather than an omitted variable problem in cross-section data has …
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Work experience as a source of specification error in earnings models: implications for gender wage decompositions
Regan, Tracy L.; Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2006
We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...
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Wage inequality and job insecurity among permanent and contract workers in India: evidence from organized manufacturing industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organised manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with the steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267504
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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007
composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268220
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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
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