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

This paper develops a method to decompose differences across distributions of household income, based on counterfactual distributions that 'lie between' the actually observed distributions. Our approach decomposes differences between any two income distributions (or functionals such as ine...

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Main Authors: Bourguignon, Francois, Ferreira, Francisco H.G., Leite, Phillippe G.
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5438