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Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of Labor Economics
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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Disability and Skill Mismatch
Jones, Melanie K. - 2009
This paper integrates two strands of literature on overskilling and disability using the 2004 British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). It finds that the disabled are significantly more likely to be mismatched in the labour market, to suffer from a pay penalty and to have lower job...
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The dynamics of proits and wages : technology, of-shoring and demand
Bogliacino, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; Cirillo, Valeria - 2016
understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …
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Labour market developments in the Jokowi years
Manning, Chris; Pratomo, Devanto Shasta - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 35 (2018) 2, pp. 165-184
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Returns to postgraduate education in Portugal : holding on to a higher ground?
Almeida, Andre; Figueiredo, Hugo; Cerejeira, João; … - 2017
In this paper we use a large official employer-employee dataset, which includes almost the whole universe of business firms, to document and decompose the rising graduates postgraduates' wage differentials in Portugal. Using a non-parametric matching exercise, we pay particular attention to...
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The dynamics of profits and wages : technology, offshoring and demand
Bogliacino, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; Cirillo, Valeria - In: Industry and innovation 25 (2018) 7/8, pp. 778-808
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Chapter 20. The Effects of Technical Change on Labor Market Inequalities
Hornstein, Andreas; Krusell, Per; Violante, Giovanni L. - 2005
In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labor market. A key focus is on the rise of U.S. wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …
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Wage inequality in Argentina : an interpretation based on occupational skills
Gómez, María Celeste - In: Estudios económicos 37 (2020) 75, pp. 27-49
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Skills and employment transitions in Brazil
Adamczyk, Willian; Ehrl, Philipp; Monasteiro, Leonardo - 2022
This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates …
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Education and earnings inequality in Ghana
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla - In: Modern economy 7 (2016) 4, pp. 456-469
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