Several countries had an increase in female labour participation during the twentieth century. Even so, few of them can be proud of the conditions these women faced in dealing with family responsibilities and the labour market. This paper analyses the occupational distribution of men and women from 1978 to 2007 using the microdata of Pnad. It shows that women are entering traditional male occup...

This paper explores the effects of the 1995 Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake on the wages of people in the area of the earthquake over the 17 years after its occurrence and identified which part of the wage distribution has been most affected by this event by comparing the wage distributions of disaster victims and non-victims. To do this, we used three decomposition methods, developed by (i) Oaxaca (1...

BACKGROUND Visual acuity, like many other health-related problems, does not have an equal distribution in terms of socio-economic factors. We conducted this study to estimate and decompose economic inequality in presenting visual acuity using two methods and to compare their results in a population aged 40-64 years in Shahroud, Iran. METHODS The data of 5188 participants in the first phase of...

Empirical evidence from developed countries consistently shows that working wives remain responsible for most household duties. The aim of this paper is to study the unequal distribution of housework between working spouses in Spain. Housework time allocation is modelled through a bivariate negative binomial distribution, conditional on a set of observable characteristics, such as paid labor co...

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In this paper we study two aspects of the decision-making process following the birth of a child: whether or not the mother works, and whether or not the couple provides the child with formal childcare. Focusing on Padova and its district (North-East Italy), we discuss differences in the strategies of Italian and foreign mothers, controlling for socio-economic status, opinions on women's roles,...

This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries and promotion for academics in the humanities. Differences in employment outcomes by gender are evaluated using three methods: the Oaxaca decomposition is used to examine salary differentials, and binary choice models and duration analysis are used to estimate the probability of promotion to ...

This paper proposes an empirical likelihood inference method for the Oaxaca–Blinder decompositions. In contrast to conventional Wald statistic using delta method, our approach circumvents linearization errors and estimation of variance terms. Furthermore, shape resulting confidence set is determined flexibly by data. Simulation results illustrate usefulness proposed method. • Empirical Our esti...