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Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labor market are frequently proposed, claiming a persistent wage gap. We examine the change of the gender wage gap in Austria between 2002 and 2007 with new data from administrative records...
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part using a modified Blinder-Oaxaca procedure. This decomposition suggests that the observed convergence is just weakly …
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We present a decomposition approach for integrated assessment modeling of climate policy based on a linear … approximation of the climate system. Our objective is to demonstrate the usefulness of decomposition for integrated assessment … models posed in a complementarity format. First, the complementarity formulation cum decomposition permits a precise …
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This paper analyzes the determinants of employability differences between short-term and long-term unemployed persons. Knowing these differences could help to address active labor market policy programs more adequately to the needs of the job-seekers in order to increase employment integration....
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between male and female employees in Germany. I extend the traditional decomposition to disentangle the effect of human … decomposition across the whole wage distribution with the method proposed by Machado and Mata (2005). Thereby, I take into account …
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Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...
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covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
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The rural-urban gap in infant mortality rates is explained using a new decomposition method that permits identification …
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decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find …
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-innovation workers. In a second step, this analysis is broken down by gender. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional … use of comparative cross-country data and a more elaborated wage decomposition method provides important new insights. We …
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