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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition"”.
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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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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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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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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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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 …