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On Using Pareto Distributions for Measuring Top-Income Gender Disparities
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Harmenberg, Karl; Öberg, Erik; … - 2019
Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting that top incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceiling coefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income distribution and show how it relates to the top-income...
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Energy intensity : a decomposition and counterfactual exercise for Latin American countries
Jiménez, Raúl; Mercado, Jorge - 2013
This paper investigates trends in energy intensity in Latin American countries over the last 40 years. It applies the Fisher Ideal Index to decompose the energy intensity into the relative contributions of energy efficiency and the activity mix, and then analyzes the determinants of these energy...
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Changes in welfare with a heterogeneous workforce : the case of Peru
Robles, Adrian; Robles, Marcos - 2016
This paper argues that the assumption of a homogeneous workforce, which is implicitly invoked in the decomposition …
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Source - assembly - sink : value added flows in the global economy
Stehrer, Robert - 2021
In this paper we provide a method to characterise global value chains and a related decomposition of bilateral gross … simple framework using matrix algebra allowing for intuitive interpretations of the individual decomposition terms and … results. The approach leads to a novel decomposition of bilateral gross export flows and related value-added trade indicators …
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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia
Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021
This paper looks at the gender wage gap throughout the transition from communism to capitalism and throughout a time of rapid economic convergence. The case of Estonia is used, and micro data from the Labour Force Survey from 1989 to 2020 are employed. The communist regimes had highly regulated...
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Wage differences between immigrants and natives in Austria : the role of literacy skills
Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Gnan, Phillipp - 2017
immigrants. When adding literacy skills to the wage decomposition, the discriminatory part vanishes completely, suggesting that …
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Productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms: is co-location always a plus?
Mariotti, Sergio; Mutinelli, Marco; Nicolini, Marcella; … - 2011
The paper analyses productivity spillovers from foreign MNEs on domestic manufacturing firms. Using a database on foreign MNEs in Italy, our results reveal that local firms do benefit from the presence of foreign MNEs, and the effect is higher when local and foreign firms in manufacturing...
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The principle of minimum differentiation revisited : return of the median voter
Hanaki, Nobuyuki; Tanimura, Emily; Vriend, Nicolaas J. - 2016
We study a linear location model (Hotelling, 1929) in which n (with n = 2) boundedly rational players follow (noisy) myopic best-reply behavior. We show through numerical and mathematical analysis that such players spend almost all the time clustered together near the center, re-establishing the...
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House price growth interdependencies and comovement
Cohen, Jeffrey P.; Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Soques, Daniel - 2019
This paper examines house price diffusion across metropolitan areas in the United States. We develop a generalization of the Hamilton and Owyang (2012) Markov-switching model, where we incorporate direct regional spillovers using a spatial weighting matrix. The Markov-switching framework allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137100
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The role of landscape amenities in regional development : a survey of migration, regional economic and hedonic pricing studies
Waltert, Fabian; Schläpfer, Felix - 2007
Quality of life factors continue to gain importance in residential location decisions as well as location decisions of firms. One such factor is an attractive local landscape. The aim of this paper is to provide a survey of the empirical literature on the role of landscape amenities in local...
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