background exploring changes in health inequality and its determinants over time is of policy interest. accordingly, this study aimed to decompose inequality in neonatal mortality into its contributing factors and then explore changes from 1995-2000 to 2005-2010 in iran.   methods required data were drawn from two iran’s demographic and health survey (dhs) conducted in 2000 and 2010. normalized...

In Chile, indigenous students obtain lower test scores, on average, than nonindigenous students. Between two cohorts of eighth-graders in the late 1990s, the test score gap declined by 0.1 to 0.2 standard deviations. An Oaxaca decomposition and related descriptive evidence suggest that the most plausible explanation is related to Chile’s large-scale school reforms that were targeted at low-achi...

This study investigates the gap in dietary diversity and thereby quantifies this into its main drivers between rural urban households. The statistical analysis based on data from Household Integrated Expenditures Survey 2018-19 for Pakistan shows that there is a significant mean difference household across rural-urban regions. To quantify regions, multivariate nonlinear Oaxaca-Blinder decomposi...

There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during pandemic by web scraping job ads from leading search website. As U.S., number vacancies declined sharply lockdown (38 percent). In April there was composition demand, wages dropped across board. By May, however...

Abstract This paper examines human capital inequality and how it relates to earnings in Portugal using data from Quadros de Pessoal for the period 1986–2017. The objective is threefold: (i) show distribution of has evolved over time; (ii) investigate association between inequality; (iii) analyse role returns schooling, together with inequality, explanation inequality. Our findings suggest that ...

Since 1987, the wages of women in Ireland have been growing faster than those men. This, coupled with a decrease average hours worked by men, has resulted reduction gender earnings gap Ireland, most notably at bottom distribution. This paper provides descriptive analysis growth male and female wages, weekly earnings, differences working patterns across wage distribution over last three decades,...

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and accelerates in the upper tail of the distribution, which we interpret as a glass ceiling effect. Using earlier data, we show that the same pattern held at the beginning of the 1990’s but not in the prior two decades. Further, we do not find this pattern either for the log wage gap...