The aim of this paper is to reveal the gender inequalities in income distribution for Turkey by using decomposition of … Gini coefficient, a common income inequality measure. A new decomposition method, Dagum's approach for decomposition of the … Gini coefficient is used in the study. In the analysis, the decomposition of the Gini coefficient by gender is applied to …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …

This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …

groups. Furthermore, using an extended version of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we identify motherhood as the primary …

Pay gaps for women and minorities have persisted after accounting for observable differences. Why? If employers can … history bans (SHBs) on employer wage posting and on the pay of job changers in a difference-in-differences design. Following … SHBs, employers posted wages more often and increased pay for job changers by about 5%, with larger increases for women (8 …