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A Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition for double-hurdle models with an application to migrants’ remittance behaviour

David AristeiDepartment of Economics, Finance and Statistics, University of Perugia, 20–06123Perugia, ItalyCorrespondence[email protected]
Pages 1665-1672 | Published online: 23 Sep 2013

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