On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials

Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Ransom, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/0304-4076(94)90074-4

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“…Decompositions of this type will be sensitive to whichever group's LBW is assumed to be the "norm". This is a standard path-dependence (or index number) issue and in our application here there does not seem to be a compelling case to regard either the "rich" or "poor" as the reference or norm and so we adopt the procedure of Neumark (1995) who suggests using the vector of returns obtained from the pooled sample of "rich" and "poor" (see Oaxaca and Ransom, 1994, for a more detailed discussion of this issue). The results are presented in table 9…”

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The Relationship Between Low Birth Weight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

Madden

2013

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Abstract:There is now fairly substantial evidence of a socioeconomic gradient in low birthweight for developed countries. The standard summary statistic for this gradient is the concentration index. Using data from the recently published Growing Up in Ireland survey, this paper calculates this index for low birthweight arising from preterm and intrauterine-growth-retardation. It also carries out a decomposition of this index for the different sources of low birthweight and finds that income inequality appears to be less important for the case of preterm births, while fathers education and local environmental conditions appear to be more relevant for IUGR. The application of the standard Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition also indicates that the socioeconomic gradient for all sources of birthweight appear to arise owing to different characteristics of rich and poor, and not because the return to characteristics differ between rich and poor.

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The Relationship Between Low Birth Weight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

Madden

2013

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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“…The term ( ) *ˆ1 mf βββ =Ω+−Ω represents an estimate of the non discriminatory reservation wage based upon the Oaxaca-Ransom (1994) weighting matrix:…”

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The gender reservation wage gap: Evidence from British Panel data

2011

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Abstract:Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap, with a differential of around 10%. The presence of children, particularly pre-school age children, plays an important role in explaining this differential. For individuals without children, the explained component of the differential is only 5%, which might indicate that perceived discrimination in the labour market influences the reservation wage setting of females. Key words:

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“…To get around this 'index number problem,' one solution is to use the pooled estimates as the single counterfactual (Oaxaca and Ransom 1994). Another solution, suggested by Cotton (1988), is to construct the nondiscriminatory earnings structure as a convex linear combination of the earnings structures of both groups.…”

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Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

Deshpande

Sharma

2015

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Using the 2004-2005 India Human Development Survey data, we estimate and decompose the earnings of household businesses owned by historically marginalized social groups known as Scheduled Castes and Tribes (SCSTs) and non-SCSTs across the earnings distribution. We find clear differences in characteristics between the two types of businesses with the former faring significantly worse. The mean decomposition reveals that as much as 55 % of the caste earnings gap could be attributed to the unexplained component. Quantile regressions suggest that gaps are higher at lower deciles, providing some evidence of a sticky floor. Finally, quantile decompositions reveal that the unexplained component is greater at the lower and middle deciles than higher, suggesting that SCST-owned businesses at the lower and middle end of the conditional earnings distribution face greater discrimination.

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On discrimination and the decomposition of wage differentials

Cited by 1,244 publications

References 9 publications

The Relationship Between Low Birth Weight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

The Relationship Between Low Birth Weight and Socioeconomic Status in Ireland

The gender reservation wage gap: Evidence from British Panel data

Disadvantage and discrimination in self-employment: caste gaps in earnings in Indian small businesses

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