Gender wage gap dynamics in a changing Ukraine

Pignatti, Norberto

doi:10.1186/2193-9020-1-7

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 5 Decomposition at the mean: Oaxaca and Ransom

From: Gender wage gap dynamics in a changing Ukraine

		2003			2007
	Specification 1	Specification 2	Specification 3	Specification 1	Specification 2	Specification 3
All
Difference	-0.256	-0.257	-0.264	-0.238	-0.236	-0.234
	(0.023)***	(0.023)***	(0.023)***	(0.024)***	(0.024)***	(0.025)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.047	-0.042	-0.061	0.048	-0.027	-0.038
	(0.008)***	(0.013)***	(0.014)***	(0.009)***	(0.015)*	(0.016)**
- Unexplained	-0.303	-0.215	-0.203	-0.286	-0.210	-0.196
	(0.021) ***	(0.019)***	(0.019)***	(0.022)***	(0.019)***	(0.020)***
Formal
Difference	-0.260	-0.261	-0.266	-0.232	-0.233	-0.234
	(0.023)***	(0.023)***	(0.023)***	(0.025)***	(0.025)***	(0.025)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.046	0.038	-0.056	0.047	-0.022	-0.028
	(0.009)***	(0.013)***	(0.014)***	(0.010)	(0.015)	(0.016)*
- Unexplained	-0.306	-0.223	-0.210	-0.279	-0.211	-0.206
	(0.021)***	(0.020)***	(0.019)***	(0.023)***	(0.020)***	(0.020)***
Informal
Difference	-0.162	-0.159	-0.166	-0.330	-0.309	-0.290
	(0.100)	(0.100)	(0.105)	(0.080)***	(0.076)***	(0.079)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.015	-0.117	-0.106	-0.046	-0.197	-0.251
	(0.044)	(0.065)*	(0.081)	(0.034)	(0.056)***	(0.061)***
- Unexplained	-0.177	-0.042	-0.059	-0.284	-0.112	-0.039
	(0.092)*	(0.079)	(0.081)	(0.071)***	(0.053)**	(0.054)
Public
Difference	-0.277	-0.277	-0.278	-0.225	-0.224	-0.222
	(0.027)***	(0.027)***	(0.027)***	(0.035)***	(0.035)***	(0.035)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.050	-0.049	-0.070	0.059	-0.023	-0.032
	(0.010)***	(0.016)***	(0.017)***	(0.015)***	(0.023)	(0.023)
- Unexplained	-0.327	-0.228	-0.208	-0.284	-0.201	-0.190
	(0.025)***	(0.023)***	(0.022)***	(0.032)***	(0.028)***	(0.028)***
Private
Difference	-0.219	-0.223	-0.225	-0.249	-0.251	-0.247
	(0.044)***	(0.044)***	(0.044)***	(0.034)***	(0.034)***	(0.034)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.035	-0.069	-0.075	0.032	-0.040	-0.055
	(0.017)**	(0.026)***	(0.028)***	(0.013)**	(0.021)*	(0.022)**
- Unexplained	-0.254	-0.153	-0.150	-0.281	-0.211	-0.192
	(0.041)***	(0.036)***	(0.036)***	(0.032)***	(0.027)***	(0.027)***

Source: ULMS.
Specification 1 - Base equation: including only age, age squared, educational dummies, tenure, tenure squared together with dummies for wages temporarily above and below contractual wages and regional dummies;
Specification 2- adding to specification 1 job variables: part time, type of occupation (from managerial to elementary positions);
Specification 3 – introducing sectoral dummies: industry, services, agriculture, hunting and fishing and public administration.
Standard errors in parentheses. * significant at 10%; ** significant at 5%; *** significant at 1%.

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