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Albayrak, Özlem; Masterson, Thomas - 2017

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You, me and the mean: A semiparametric approach to the redistributive effects of transfer programs

Garcia-Medina, B. Cecilia - 2016

I examine how changes in the receipt of social transfers benefits associated to program reforms have affected the Canadian income distribution over the 1996-2006 period. Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, I apply nonparametric decomposition methods to construct density...

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Brechas de género en el mercado laboral y pobreza: Una aproximación a partir de microsimulaciones

Martínez Torrico, Karen Marion - 2017

inequality in participation and labor income implied costs on the welfare of the society. …

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Top incomes, heavy tails, and rank-size regressions

Schluter, Christian - In: Econometrics 6 (2018) 1, pp. 1-16

In economics, rank-size regressions provide popular estimators of tail exponents of heavy-tailed distributions. We discuss the properties of this approach when the tail of the distribution is regularly varying rather than strictly Pareto. The estimator then over-estimates the true value in the...

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Increasing inequality in lifetime earnings: A tale of educational upgrading and changing employment patterns

Seckler, Matthias - 2019

This paper provides a detailed decomposition analysis of rising lifetime earnings inequality in Germany using … rising lifetime earnings inequality among West German men born between the years 1955 and 1974 can be attributed to a lower … increase in inequality, but also a stagnation in earnings for a major part of their career. This trend is even stronger when …

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Los cambios en la Distribución del Ingreso de Argentina entre 1998 y 2005

Zoloa, Juan Ignacio - 2011

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in … order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important … played an important role in the rise in inequality while the rise in the unobservable factors and the higher levels of …

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Microeconomic models with latent variables: Applications of measurement error models in empirical industrial organization and labor economics

Hu, Yingyao - 2015

This paper reviews recent developments in nonparametric identi.cation of mea- surement error models and their applications in applied microeconomics, in particular, in empirical industrial organization and labor economics. Measurement error models describe mappings from a latent distribution to...

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Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence using a matching comparisons approach

Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...

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The gender wage gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a matching comparisons approach

Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it...

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Ethnic and gender wage gaps in Ecuador

Gallardo, Lourdes; Ñopo, Hugo - 2009

Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two characteristics that, arguably, should play no role on the determination of wages: gender and ethnicity. This paper analyzes wage gaps due to both characteristics in Ecuador for...

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