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Decomposition of the gender wage gap using matching: an application for Switzerland

Djurdjevic, Dragana; Radyakin, Sergiy - 2005

In this paper, we investigate the gender wage differentials for Switzerland. Using micro data from the Swiss Labour … Force Survey, we apply a matching method to decompose the wage gap in Switzerland. Compared to the traditional Oaxaca … can be due to differences in the support. Our estimation results show that the problem of gender differences in the …

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Decomposition of the Gender Wage Gap Using Matching: An Application for Switzerland

Djurdjevic, Dragana; Radyakin, Sergiy - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES) 143 (2007) IV, pp. 365-396

We investigate the gender wage differentials for Switzerland. Using the Swiss Labour Force Survey, we apply a matching … gender supports matter in explaining wage differentials. They can be interpreted as a form of "discrimination" in wages …

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

How do men and women differ in their persistence after experiencing failure in a competitive environment? We tackle this question by combining a large online experiment (N=2,086) with machine learning. We find that when losing is unequivocally due to merit, both men and women exhibit a...

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

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Does unfairness hurt women? : the effects of losing unfair competitions

Piasenti, Stefano; Valente, Marica; Veldhuizen, Roel van; … - 2023

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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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Statistical matching using propensity scores : theory and application to the Levy Institute measure of economic well-being

Kum, Hyunsub (contributor); Masterson, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

This paper summarizes the background, type, logic, and working procedure of the statistical matching used in the Levy … Demographic Survey of the Current Population Survey data sets to demonstrate the procedure and results of the matching. Challenges … Matching ; Survey of Consumer Finances ; Annual Demographic Supplement ; Distribution of Income and Wealth …

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