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Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries

The authors develop a microeconometric method to account for differences across distributions of household income. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, they also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and for co...

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Main Authors:	Bourguignon, Francois, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe G.
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2013
Subjects:	HOUSEHOLD INCOME LABOR MARKETS OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE INCOME DISTRIBUTION OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURE ENDOWMENTS PENSIONS INCOME INEQUALITIES ABSOLUTE POVERTY ABSOLUTE POVERTY LINE COUNTERFACTUAL COUNTRY REGRESSIONS CROSS-COUNTRY DIFFERENCES DATA SET DATA SETS DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS DEMOGRAPHIC MAKE-UP DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS DIFFERENCES IN INCOME DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS ECONOMETRIC MODELS EMPIRICAL APPLICATION EXCHANGE RATES EXOGENOUS VARIABLES EXPLANATORY POWER FUNCTIONAL FORM FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GINI COEFFICIENT HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION HOUSEHOLD INCOMES HOUSEHOLD SIZE HOUSEHOLD SURVEYS HUMAN CAPITAL INCOME DATA INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS INCOME INEQUALITY INCOME SOURCES INCOME STUDY INCOMES INEQUALITY LEVELS INEQUALITY MEASURE INEQUALITY MEASURES LABOR FORCE LABOR MARKET MEAN INCOME MEAN INCOMES MEDIAN INCOME NORMAL DISTRIBUTION PER CAPITA INCOME PER CAPITA INCOMES PERSONAL INCOME POLICY RESEARCH POVERTY GAP POVERTY INCIDENCE POVERTY INDICES POVERTY LEVELS POVERTY MEASURE POVERTY MEASURES PUBLIC TRANSFERS RELATIVE IMPORTANCE RELATIVE POVERTY RESIDUAL TERM SIMULATION TECHNIQUES WAGES WEALTH
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2002/04/1769436/beyond-oaxaca-blinder-accounting-differences-household-income-distributions-across-countries http://hdl.handle.net/10986/14287

Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries

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