Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions

Labour Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 284-290

  Elder, Todd E ^a   Goddeeris, John H ^a   Haider, Steven J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompositions; Discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 73549122345     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2009.11.002     Document Type: Article

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