The purpose of this study is to analyze the wage gap between men and women in Côte d’Ivoire. More specifically, it aims assess main aspects gender inequality functioning labor market factors underlying are examined empirically using Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method. data used from 2016 National Survey on Situation Employment Informal Sector (ENSESI) among households. results show that, more ...

This study is conducted to investigate the impact of migration on living standards households with migrants in context Vietnam. Data were collected from results Vietnam Household Living Standards time series. Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition was employed decompose source differences income between and without migrants. The show that multiyear dataset had a higher than nonmigrant households, differe...

This paper examines the sources of the sex wage gap in a set of EU countries with the European Structure of Earnings Survey (ESES), a unique cross-national survey of matched employeremployee data. The paper moves beyond traditional analysis of sex wage gap by incorporating the workplace effect in the wage outcomes of men and women and by developing inter-country comparisons via the Juhn-Murphy-...

This paper examines two of the decision-making processes following the birth of a child: whether a working mother should continue with her job, and whether the couple should provide the child with formal childcare. Focusing on Padova and its district (North-East Italy), differences in the strategies of Italian and foreign mothers are discussed, controlling for socio-economic status, opinions on...

O objetivo deste artigo é analisar setorialmente os diferenciais de rendimentos entre gêneros no estado do Rio Grande Sul. Para tanto, utilizando dados da Relação Anual Informações Sociais (RAIS) dos anos 2012 a 2018, são estimadas as decomposições Oaxaca (1973) e Blinder Ñopo (2008), com o intuito verificar existência ou não um possível diferencial mulheres homens mercado trabalho gaúcho, assi...

Most studies of the gender pay gap use cross-section earnings functions to apply a Oaxaca decomposition into the contributions of differences in characteristics and coefficients. But the accounts that these studies provide of the gender pay gap are often hard to relate to more informal stories told about the sources of women’s disadvantage in the labour market. In this paper we show how one can...

Why Is Poverty So High Among Afro-Brazilians? A Decomposition Analysis of the Racial Poverty Gap This study aimed to identify the major factors underlying the large discrepancy in poverty levels between two Brazilian racial groups: whites and Afro-Brazilians. We performed an Oaxaca-Blinder-type decomposition for nonlinear regressions in order to quantify the extent to which differences in obser...