Bourguignon, François; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; … - 2005
control of the individual such as her family background, her race and the region where she was born. We interpret the …. The decomposition is applied to the distributions of male and female earnings in Brazil, in 1996. While the residual term … education is by far the most important circumstance affecting earnings, dwarfing the effects of race and place of birth. …