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Table 7 Decomposition of the change in the gender wage gap at the mean (reference estimates – pooled samples over both groups)

From: Gender wage gap dynamics in a changing Ukraine

	Specification 1				Specification 2				Specification 3
	D	Q	P	QP	D	Q	P	QP	D	Q	P	QP
All
Total differential of which:	-0.020				-0.020				-0.023
Explained	-0.001	0.007	-0.010	0.001	-0.013	0.026	-0.041	0.002	-0.019	0.031	-0.047	-0.003
Unexplained	-0.019	-0.015	0.003	-0.007	-0.008	-0.001	-0.002	-0.005	-0.004	0.000	-0.001	-0.003
Formal
Total differential of which:	-0.028				-0.028				-0.029
Explained	0.000	0.003	-0.003	-0.001	-0.016	0.016	-0.035	0.004	-0.014	0.020	-0.021	-0.013
Unexplained	-0.028	-0.024	0.002	-0.005	-0.013	-0.008	-0.002	-0.003	-0.015	-0.017	0.008	-0.006
Informal
Total differential of which:	0.188				0.191				0.183
Explained	0.047	0.032	-0.190	0.205	0.124	0.106	-0.148	0.165	0.164	0.264	-0.122	0.022
Unexplained	0.141	0.184	-0.028	-0.016	0.067	0.085	0.014	-0.032	0.019	0.036	0.016	-0.033
Public
Total differential of which:	-0.048				-0.049				-0.052
Explained	-0.006	-0.002	0.010	-0.015	-0.022	0.029	-0.033	-0.018	-0.039	0.018	-0.042	-0.014
Unexplained	-0.042	-0.036	-0.002	-0.004	-0.027	-0.034	0.005	0.001	-0.013	-0.009	-0.002	-0.002
Private
Total differential of which:	0.037				0.035				0.030
Explained	0.001	0.027	-0.036	0.010	-0.022	0.003	-0.048	0.022	-0.011	0.057	-0.050	-0.017
Unexplained	0.036	0.067	-0.013	-0.017	0.058	0.081	-0.011	-0.012	0.041	0.057	-0.011	-0.005

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.

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