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Table 8 Decomposition of the change in the gender wage gap at the mean (reference estimates – male coefficients and residual distributions)

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	0.007	0.008	-0.004	0.004	-0.013	0.019	-0.036	0.003	-0.018	0.032	-0.035	-0.014
Unexplained	-0.028	-0.007	-0.016	-0.004	-0.007	0.012	-0.015	-0.004	-0.005	0.013	-0.012	-0.006
Formal
Total differential of which:	-0.028				-0.028				-0.029
Explained	0.009	0.004	0.006	0.000	-0.001	0.009	-0.015	0.005	0.009	0.022	0.002	-0.016
Unexplained	-0.037	-0.014	-0.020	-0.004	-0.027	-0.005	-0.019	-0.003	-0.038	-0.023	-0.010	-0.005
Informal
Total differential of which:	0.188				0.191				0.183
Explained	0.024	0.018	-0.256	0.262	0.077	0.142	-0.197	0.132	0.172	0.380	-0.093	-0.115
Unexplained	0.163	0.207	0.007	-0.050	0.114	0.140	0.047	-0.073	0.011	0.050	0.036	-0.075
Public
Total differential of which:	-0.048				-0.049				-0.052
Explained	-0.033	-0.002	0.008	-0.039	-0.046	0.019	-0.018	-0.047	-0.054	0.021	-0.024	-0.051
Unexplained	-0.015	-0.001	-0.034	0.020	-0.003	0.000	-0.028	0.024	0.002	0.000	-0.025	0.027
Private
Total differential of which:	0.037				0.035				0.030
Explained	-0.002	0.021	-0.042	0.019	-0.075	-0.006	-0.110	0.040	-0.051	0.070	-0.094	-0.027
Unexplained	0.040	0.077	-0.018	-0.019	0.111	0.149	-0.009	-0.029	0.081	0.113	-0.012	-0.020

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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