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A Simple Solution to the Identification Problem in Detailed Wage Decompositions

Yun, Myeong-Su - 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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Decomposing Differences in the First Moment

Yun, Myeong-Su - 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.

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Female Labour Supply, Flexibility of Working Hours, and Job Mobility in the Netherlands

Euwals, Rob - 1999

common. Empirical analysis based on a sample of employed women in the Dutch Socio- Economic Panel (1987-1989) shows, however …

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Money for Nothing and Your Chips for Free? The Anatomy of the PC Wage Dipperential

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 1999

. Following Krueger (1993) and using the German Socio- Economic Panel (GSOEP), cross-sectional wage regression results from 1997 … and panel results from 1984-1997 are presented. It is shown that the wage premium attributed to using a computer at work …) stress the need for panel data to control for unmeasured individual effects, we use GSOEP 1984-1997 panel data, where a …

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

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 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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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - 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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Normalized equation and decomposition analysis: computation and inference

Yun, Myeong-Su - 2005

This paper joins discussions on normalized regression and decomposition equations in devising a simple and general algorithm for obtaining the normalized regression and applying it to the Oaxaca decomposition. This resolves the invariance problem in the detailed Oaxaca decomposition. An...

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Electoral rules and politicians' behavior: a micro test

Gagliarducci, Stefano; Nannicini, Tommaso; Naticchioni, … - 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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Targeting non-cognitive skills to improve cognitive outcomes: evidence from a remedial education intervention

Holmlund, Helena; Silva, Olmo - 2009

A growing body of research highlights the importance of non-cognitive skills as determinants of young people's cognitive outcomes at school. However, little evidence exists about the effects of policies that specifically target students' non-cognitive skills as a way to improve educational...

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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 - 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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