Arbeitspapier

Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions

In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional independence assumption, this estimand is equivalent to the average treatment effect (ATE). I also provide treatment-effects reinterpretations of the Reimers, Cotton, and Fortin decompositions as well as estimate average wage gaps, average wage gains for men, and average wage losses for women in the United Kingdom. Conditional wage gaps increase across the wage distribution and therefore, on average, male gains are larger than female losses.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 9036

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Labor Discrimination
Thema
glass ceilings
gender wage gaps
decomposition methods
treatment effects

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sloczynski, Tymon
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sloczynski, Tymon
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2015

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