Essays about: "RIF-regressions."

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  1. 1. Gender Wage Gap in Urban Nicaragua: Evidence from Decomposition Analysis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Eduardo Camilo Pacheco Medina; [2013]
    Keywords : Gender wage gap; Nicaragua; discrimination; Oaxaca-Blinder; RIF-regressions.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper empirically investigates explanations to the gender wage gap in urban Nicaragua for 2005 and 2009. For this task, using data from the EMNV survey, we applied an Oaxaca-Blinder (1973) decomposition (standard and correcting for selection bias) of the mean wage and the novel Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regression method introduced by Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2009) for the wage distribution. READ MORE