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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Oaxaca-Blinder"”.
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Brecha salarial de género en América Latina: El impacto de las habilidades socio-emocionales
… 2015 y utilizando el modelo de descomposición de Oaxaca-Blinder, se busca incluir algunas variables no cognitivas y determinar si ayudan o no a explicar la diferencia entre los salarios que ganan hombres y mujeres en la región. Los resultados muestran que, en promedio, existen diferencias en las …
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Three essays on earnings and earnings inequality in Hong Kong: 1991-2011
… percentiles of the earnings distribution. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition estimates suggest that more than one third of the gender earnings gap at the mean level could be accounted for by the covariate differences. The earnings differential between natives and immigrants tends to be higher at …
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Does a Child Penalty Exist in the Post-apartheid South African Labour Market?
… they are married. Furthermore, the study applies Oaxaca-Blinder type decompositions within the RIF framework to decompose changes in the motherhood wage gap along the distribution into explained and unexplained contributions related to a range of factors. The decomposition results indicate that at …
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Wage Inequality: A Gender and Race Analysis of South African Wages between 1994 and 2015
… class of indices, Atkinson class of measures and Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition techniques. Quantile regressions are also run to identify potential factors that could explain inequality in the country. Inequality between 1994 and 2015 has increased and the decomposition of the General Entropy class …
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Three Essays on Food Insecurity and Economics
… rural-urban continuum code. In addition, an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition is employed to determine the causes of food insecurity rate differences between county's based on their rural-urban continuum codes. The second manuscript titled ``The Role of Infrastructure on Food Flows in the United …
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Causas de las diferencias en desempeño escolar entre colegios públicos y privados : Colombia en las pruebas saber 11 2014
… del año \ 2014, y se aplica la descomposición de oaxaca-blinder, combinada con estimaciones de la \ función de producción educativa, a partir de la metodología propuesta por Heckman, para corregir el sesgo de selección. En el contexto nacional, se encuentran diferencias l significativas en todas …
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Essays in applied microeconomics
… their amount of housework. According to the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, the observable characteristics explain very little of the gap in each year. Nonetheless, a substantial part of the change in the gap can be attributed to changes in observable characteristics, mainly changes in the …
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Measuring the gender-wage differential and discrimination in the Eritrean labour market
… is found is in tum decomposed using the standard Oaxaca -Blinder (1973) procedure. The econometric result showed that women earned about 66 % of what men earned. The wage differentials are decomposed into two components, the differential due to the measurable variables and that due to …
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Applying a critical quantitative lens to examine the learning outcome differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children in Peru
… are categorised. To address the second aim the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition technique is used. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition enables breaking down the difference between groups into an explained portion attributed to differences in endowments and an unexplained portion that captures …
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Racial Disparities in Adherence to Cardiovascular Medications among the Elderly in Medicare: Three Empirical Essays
… quantile regression, and distribution-wide Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, respectively. The Institute of Medicine’s framework on racial healthcare disparities constituted the primary basis for defining and empirically estimating adherence disparities. These investigations contribute threefold …
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Gender and education : a microeconometric analysis of returns to education in Nigeria
… estimate returns. Second, by applying the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, which relies on the Re-Centred Influence Function (RIF) regression, the wages of men and women across formal and informal sectors are decomposed to further examine the extent of discrimination at several quantile points …
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The gender wage gap in developing and transition countries
… raw wage gap estimated at the mean through the Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) procedure. In the second chapter I run a two-steps Heckman procedure by estimating a model of participation in the labour market which shows a significant selection bias for females. Forth, I apply the Machado-Mata (2005) …
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Essays on the effects of parental education and private tutoring on children's education outcomes, and the rural-urban student achievement differential in China
… respectively. The regression analysis and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggest that urban children outperform their rural counterparts mainly because of their better socio-economic background (e.g. parental education and family income per capita), better school quality and higher …
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Essays on the effects of parental education and private tutoring on children's education outcomes, and the rural-urban student achievement differential in China
… respectively. The regression analysis and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggest that urban children outperform their rural counterparts mainly because of their better socio-economic background (e.g. parental education and family income per capita), better school quality and higher …
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Δοκίμια στην οικονομική της παχυσαρκίας
… κατάλληλα υποδείγματα διάσπασης μισθών κατά Oaxaca-Blinder. Τα σχετικά ευρήματα καταδεικνύουν την ύπαρξη μισθολογικών χασμάτων εις βάρος των παχύσαρκων λευκών ανδρών και γυναικών. Τα εν λόγω μισθολογικά χάσματα μπορούν να ερμηνευθούν -σε ικανοποιητικό βαθμό- από τις διαφορές στα παρατηρούμενα …
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Essays in Health Economics
… determinants of health with predictive power and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to evaluate the explanatory power of these measures. The results show that environmental factors explain only a small portion of racial disparities.</p> <p>In Chapter 3, I study the effect of exposure to extreme …
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Empirical Essays in Earnings and Labor Markets in Developing and Transition Economies
… upper parts of the distribution. The traditional Oaxaca-Blinder method and a recent method that combines quantile regression with the bootstrap are applied to decompose the gender gap into a portion attributable to differences in characteristics and a portion explained by returns to …
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Essays on the economics of education
… Among the replication strategies, Kline's (2011) Oaxaca-Blinder procedure outperforms both discrete covariate matching and propensity score weighting on bias and precision. Because STBF award effects are larger for students who are less likely to win scholarships, linear regression estimates are …
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Brechas salariales de género en el mercado laboral urbano colombiano : efectos del sector económico
Este documento busca entender los efectos de los sectores económicos sobre la diferencia salarial entre hombres y mujeres, con el fin de identificar su rol en la parte explicada y no explicada de la brecha. Para ello, se utilizó la Gran Encuesta Integrada de Hogares de Colombia para el 2017 y una …