{"title":"Wage Discrimination Measurement: In Defense of a Simple but Informative Statistical Tool","authors":"M. Le Breton, A. Michelangeli, Eugenio Peluso","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.1337986","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"We examine several functional and numerical measures of wage discrimination in the spirit of the Lorenz curve. The First Order discrimination curve is based on the comparison of the wage CDF of two subpopulations. Three dierent Second Order discrimination curves are derived to re…ne the …rst one by taking into account inequality and/or e¢ ciency in the wage distribution across the two groups. We explore the relationship between these curves and some � Butler and McDonald (1987) developed about two decades ago the similar concept of interdistributional Lorenz curve and the main idea of our paper was already implicit in the work of some other scholars. However, our paper seems to constitute the …rst systematic study of these curves as a …rst step towards the derivation of partial dominance criteria in the analysis of discrimination data. y We thank Alain Trannoy for useful comments. The usual disclaimer applies. z Manufacture des Tabacs, Aile Jean-Jacques Laont 21, allee de Brienne, F-31000 Toulouse. E-mail: lebre-","PeriodicalId":106212,"journal":{"name":"Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family","volume":"332 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Labor: Demographics & Economics of the Family","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1337986","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We examine several functional and numerical measures of wage discrimination in the spirit of the Lorenz curve. The First Order discrimination curve is based on the comparison of the wage CDF of two subpopulations. Three dierent Second Order discrimination curves are derived to re…ne the …rst one by taking into account inequality and/or e¢ ciency in the wage distribution across the two groups. We explore the relationship between these curves and some � Butler and McDonald (1987) developed about two decades ago the similar concept of interdistributional Lorenz curve and the main idea of our paper was already implicit in the work of some other scholars. However, our paper seems to constitute the …rst systematic study of these curves as a …rst step towards the derivation of partial dominance criteria in the analysis of discrimination data. y We thank Alain Trannoy for useful comments. The usual disclaimer applies. z Manufacture des Tabacs, Aile Jean-Jacques Laont 21, allee de Brienne, F-31000 Toulouse. E-mail: lebre-
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