Gender wage gap dynamics in a changing Ukraine

Pignatti, Norberto

doi:10.1186/2193-9020-1-7

IZA Journal of Labor & Development

Table 6 Decomposition at the mean: Oaxaca and Blinder

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
	(0.021)***	(0.021)***	(0.021)***	(0.022)***	(0.022)***	(0.023)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.041	-0.020	-0.037	0.064	0.057	0.022
	(0.016)***	(0.031)	(0.034)	(0.018)***	(0.037)	(0.043)
- Unexplained	-0.298	-0.237	-0.227	-0.302	-0.293	-0.256
	(0.024)***	(0.036)***	(0.039)***	(0.026)***	(0.040)***	(0.046)***
Formal
Difference	-0.260	-0.261	-0.266	-0.232	-0.233	-0.234
	(0.021)***	(0.021)***	(0.022)***	(0.023)***	(0.023)***	(0.023)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.049	-0.031	-0.044	0.076	0.089	0.055
	(0.017)***	(0.032)	(0.035)	(0.020)***	(0.039)**	(0.043)
- Unexplained	-0.308	-0.230	-0.222	-0.308	-0.322	-0.289
	(0.025)***	(0.037)***	(0.039)***	(0.027)***	(0.043)***	(0.046)***
Informal
Difference	-0.162	-0.159	-0.166	-0.330	-0.309	-0.290
	(0.102)***	(0.106)	(0.112)	(0.079)***	(0.076)***	(0.081)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.055	-0.004	-0.268	0.112	0.070	0.179
	(0.153)	(0.219)	(0.304)	(0.104)	(0.193)	(0.218)
- Unexplained	-0.217	-0.156	0.102	-0.441	-0.379	-0.469
	(0.186)	(0.239)	(0.318)	(0.135)***	(0.206)*	(0.231)**
Public
Difference	-0.277	-0.277	-0.278	-0.225	-0.224	-0.222
	(0.025)***	(0.025)***	(0.025)***	(0.032)***	(0.033)***	(0.033)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.056	-0.038	-0.040	0.034	0.076	0.084
	(0.018)***	(0.037)	(0.039)	(0.034)	(0.064)	(0.066)
- Unexplained	-0.333	-0.239	-0.237	-0.259	-0.301	-0.307
	(0.028)***	(0.043)***	(0.044)***	(0.045)***	(0.070)***	(0.072)***
Private
Difference	-0.219	-0.223	-0.225	-0.249	-0.251	-0.247
	(0.042)***	(0.043)***	(0.043)***	(0.032)***	(0.032)***	(0.032)***
Decomposition
- Explained	0.041	0.102	-0.006	0.018	0.029	0.000
	(0.037)	(0.072)	(0.084)	(0.024)	(0.052)	(0.062)
- Unexplained	-0.260	-0.324	-0.219	-0.267	-0.279	-0.247
	(0.051)***	(0.078)***	(0.089)**	(0.036)***	(0.057)***	(0.065)***

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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