..., respond differently to policy and economic shifts. Design/methodology/approach We use a decomposition method to investigate the changes in energy intensity arising from changes in the composition of economic activities and efficiency. We also estimate the impact of various socioeconomic factors...

... using average and distributional decomposition techniques. We select only tertiary educated males with age comprised between 23 and 65, who are not in education and are regularly employed as wage-earners at the time of the survey. The choice of considering only males is aimed at minimizing possible...

... to the urban–urban worker in the Brazilian labor market. Two databases were used, the 2005 and 2015 PNADs (Pesquisa Nacional Por Amostra de Domicílios). Design/methodology/approach The methodology is the decomposition approach proposed by Firpo et al. (2007, 2009). This method adopts estimates...

... 09 2015 05 05 2016 26 08 2016 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2017 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Ahmet Özçam can be contacted at: aozcam@yeditepe.edu.tr Decomposition Oligopoly Deadweight loss triangle Imperfectly competitive markets Input...

... profile for Sri Lanka and then investigates the principle components of inequality by applying several decomposition techniques. Essentially a decomposable class of inequality measures were computed by considering households characteristics such as geographic location/sector, gender, education and type...