Decomposing the Composition Effect This paper proposes a decomposition of the composition effect, i.e. the part of the observed between-group difference in the distribution of some economic outcome that can be explained by differences in the distribution of covariates. Our decomposition contains three types of components: (i) the “direct contributions” of each covariate due to between-group dif...

This paper considers the implications of the permanent/transitory decomposition of shocks for identi…cation of structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one permanent structural shock. It provides a simple and intuitive generalization of the in‡uential work of Blanchard and Quah (1989), and shows that structural equations with known permanent shocks can not c...

As a source of revenue for the state budget and energy (particularly fuel) to drive various sectors life, oil gas industry plays an important role in Indonesian economy. The purpose this study is analyse effect crude prices on natural during Covid19 Pandemic Indonesia. research method used explanatory using real price decomposition introduced recently by Kilian (2009). This develops four variab...

Religious Minorities and Provision of Public Goods: Evidence from Rural West Bengal Religious and ethnic minorities across the world face partisan treatment with regard to provision of public goods, either as outcome of discriminatory practices or due to historical antecedents, such as the caste and religious divides in India. In several districts of West Bengal in India concentration of religi...

Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the obligatory betweenand within-group components as well as an “overlappi...

Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained. Faced with this decomposition problem...

The present paper thoroughly explores second-best efficient allocations in an adverse selection insurance economy. We start from a natural extension of the classical model, assuming less than perfect risk perceptions. We propose first and second welfare theorems, by means of which we describe efficiencyenhancing policies. Notions of weak and strong adverse selection are promising for interpreti...

In this report we present an algorithm for the decomposition of a mono-lithic LOTOS process into two processes, which composed by the parallel operator is observational equivalent to the original one. Repeated application permits the generation of more than two processes. The algorithm is deened on labelled transition systems and, hence, its application to any process algebra with a similar not...

PURPOSE To present experimental dosimetry results for the new IsoSeed I25.S17plus (125)I brachytherapy source, in fulfillment of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine recommendation for, at least one, experimental dosimetry characterization of new low-energy seeds before their clinical implementation. METHODS AND MATERIALS A batch of 100 LiF thermoluminescent dosimeter (TLD)-100 ...

Accounting for Labor Demand Effects in Structural Labor Supply Models When assessing the effects of policy reforms on the labor market, most studies only focus on labor supply. The interaction of supply and demand side is not explicitly modeled, which might lead to biased estimates of potential labor market outcomes. This paper proposes a straightforward method to remedy this shortcoming. We us...