Decomposition Methods in Economics

Handbook of Labor Economics

Volumn 4, Issue PART A, 2011, Pages 1-102

  Fortin, Nicole ^a   Lemieux, Thomas ^a   Firpo, Sergio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b EESP FGV and IZA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Counterfactual distribution; Decomposition; Discrimination; Inequality; Wage differentials; Wage structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953112235     PISSN: 15734463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7218(11)00407-2     Document Type: Book

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