APPLICATION OF CLASSIFICATION TREES TO ANALYZE INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN POLAND

• Authors: Krzysztof Kompa , Dorota Witkowska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of presented research is to identify factors that determine wages in Poland and to find out if gender pay gap exists, applying classification trees. For the grouping variable i.e. net income from the main place of employment we construct clusters of respondents that are created due to such features as: gender, education, employment contract, economic, occupation, additional job, size of enterprise, measured by the number of employees, age and job seniority in years. Investigation is provided applying data from the Polish Labor Force Survey in the years 2003, 2006 and 2009.

Keywords

EN

labor market; gender segregation; classification tree

• Publisher: Katedra Ekonometrii i Statystyki, Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Metody Ilościowe w Badaniach Ekonomicznych
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 265-275

Dates

published

2013

Contributors

author

Krzysztof Kompa

• Department of Econometrics and Statistics Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW

author

Dorota Witkowska

• Department of Econometrics and Statistics Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW

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