This chapter considers the linkage of empirical estimates of wage discrimination between
two groups, as introduced by Oaxaca (1973), to a theoretical model of employers' …

Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing
equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing …

The often used method for decomposing wage differentials into human capital and
discrimination components is reformulated so that both the disadvantage, or" cost," …

The Economics of Earnings analyses the wages that people earn, the jobs they do, and the
labour market laws and rules within which they operate. Moving away from the conventional …

The single most important development in the labor market over the last 40 years has been
the increase in the number of women, especially married women, at work for pay. There …

This paper explores secular changes in women's pay relative to men's pay. It shows how the
human capital model predicts a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work …

There are persistent differences in homeownership rates across racial and ethnic groups.
Homeownership rates for whites are over 20 percentage points higher than for blacks or …

The extent of discrimination against handicapped men and women is estimated in this
paper. Observed wage differentials are corrected for selectivity bias. The results indicate that …

A group of health-impaired workers who self-report in the Survey of Income and Program
Participation that their productivity is not affected by their impairment is used to separately …

摘要工资差异分解方法发展到今天, 可谓均值分解和分布分解共分其天下. 均值分解方法呈
Oaxaca Blinder 分解及其改进, Brown 分解及其改进和JMP1991 分解“三足鼎立” 的局面 …