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Wage Structure Determinants and Gender Pay Gap among Wage Earners : From Mean to Overall Log Wage Distributional Decomposition

Sun, HongYe - 2017

This study comprehensively investigates the wage structure determinants and gender pay gap in Korea. Using 2014 Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS) data, we find that individual characteristics exhibit significant differences across the distribution and that magnitude and significance...

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Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities : The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials

Longhi, Simonetta - 2017

Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...

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Spatial-ethnic inequalities : the role of location in the estimation of ethnic wage differentials

Longhi, Simonetta - 2017

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En-Gendering Economic Inequality

Gilman, Michele E. - 2016

We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...

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Job Placement : Gender Differences and Consequences on Welfare

Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Leite Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; … - 2001

In the recent period, the qualitative dimension of the women participation in the labor force has improved quickly, in response to cultural and economic changes. In Brazil, many authors have pointed that women have a higher level of schooling than men, which should result, caeteris paribus, in...

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Male-Female Earnings Differentials in Canada : Where in the Earnings Distribution Do They Exist?

Mueller, Richard - 2013

The gender pay gap is the topic of countless papers in the economics and social science literature. Its study can be traced back at least as far as the Old Testament (Gunderson, 2006), and debates on the issue in the media and elsewhere often generate much more heat than light. For policy...

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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps Throughout the Earnings Distribution

Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022

-employee payroll data on jobs, hours, and earnings, linked with the personal and family characteristics of workers from the national …

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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics

Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...

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The Distribution of Earnings Under Monopsonistic/Polistic Competition

Thisse, Jacques-François - 2010

Recent empirical contributions in labor economics suggest that individual firms face upward sloping labor supplies. We rationalize this by assuming that idiosyncratic non-pecuniary conditions interact with money wages in workers' decisions to work for specific firms. Likewise, firms supply...

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It's where you work : increases in earnings dispersion across establishments and individuals in the US

Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Davis, James C.; Freeman, … - 2014

earnings among individuals into the part due to changes in earnings among establishments and the part due to changes in … earnings within-establishments and finds that much of the 1970s-2010s increase in earnings inequality results from increased … dispersion of the earnings among the establishments where individuals work. It also shows that the divergence of establishment …

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