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The impact of obesity on human capital accumulation : exploring the driving factors

Carrasco, Raquel; González-González, Diego - 2024

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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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