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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … thorough discussion of how to apply the technique, an analysis of the sensitivity of the decomposition estimates to different …
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We address the bias from using potential vs. actual experience in earnings models. Statistical tests reject the classical errors-in-variable framework. The nature of the measurement error is best viewed as a model misspecification problem. We correct for this by modeling actual experience as a...
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This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...
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The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates … thorough discussion of how to apply the technique, an analysis of the sensitivity of the decomposition estimates to different …
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Policies to reduce the gender pay gap feature prominently on the political agenda and interventions in the labour 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...
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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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We examine the gender wage gap in Austria using new matched employer-employee data from 2007. We investigate the gap at the conditional wage distribution of men and women, and decompose it into the parts which are attributed to different characteristics and different returns to these...
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