Decomposing Wage Distributions Using Recentered Influence Function Regressions

This paper provides a detailed exposition of an extension of the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method that can be applied to various distributional measures. The two-stage procedure first divides distributional changes into a wage structure effect and a composition effect using a reweighting method....

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Main Authors: Sergio P. Firpo, Nicole M. Fortin, Thomas Lemieux
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Econometrics
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2225-1146/6/2/28