An Extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition to a Continuum of Comparison Groups
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
Jul 2007
Subject
Afro-Descendents;
Indigenous People
JEL code
C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General;
C10 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General: General;
C11 - Bayesian Analysis: General;
C12 - Hypothesis Testing: General;
C13 - Estimation: General;
C14 - Semiparametric and Nonparametric Methods: General;
C15 - Statistical Simulation Methods: General;
C18 - Methodological Issues: General;
C19 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General: Other;
J1 - Demographic Economics;
J10 - Demographic Economics: General;
J11 - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts;
J12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse;
J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth;
J14 - Economics of the Elderly • Economics of the Handicapped • Non-Labor Market Discrimination;
J15 - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants • Non-labor Discrimination;
J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination;
J17 - Value of Life • Forgone Income;
J18 - Public Policy;
J19 - Demographic Economics: Other;
J7 - Labor Discrimination;
J70 - Labor Discrimination: General;
J71 - Discrimination;
J78 - Public Policy;
J79 - Labor Discrimination: Other;
O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors • Shadow Economy • Institutional Arrangements
Country
Peru
Category
Working Papers
This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
