A SIMPLE SOLUTION TO THE IDENTIFICATION PROBLEM IN DETAILED WAGE DECOMPOSITIONS

Oaxaca and Ransom (1999) show that a detailed decomposition of the coefficients effect is destined to suffer from an identification problem since the detailed coefficients effect attributed to dummy variables is not invariant to the choice of reference groups. It turns out that the identification pr...

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Volume:	43
Main Author:	Yun, Myeong‐Su
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Academic
Place of publication:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2005 WILEY Western Economic Association International
published in:	Economic inquiry Vol. 43; no. 4; pp. 766 - 772
Data of publication:	October 2005
ISSN:	0095-2583 1465-7295
EISSN:	1465-7295
Discipline:	Economics
Subjects:	Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Economic research Models Research Management Wages United States MECHANICS INTERINDUSTRY DISCRIMINATION DIFFERENTIALS GAP
Online Access:	available in Bonn?
Database:	Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 2005 Web of Knowledge Web of Science CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS