Beyond the mean gender wage gap: Decomposition of differences in wage distributions using quantile regression
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gender wage gap; decomposition; quantile regression;JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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- NEP-HRM-2010-07-17 (Human Capital & Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LAB-2010-07-17 (Labour Economics)
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