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| From | Muhammad Anees <anees@aneconomist.com> |
| To | statalist@hsphsun2.harvard.edu |
| Subject | Re: st: Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion |
| Date | Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:02:29 +0500 |
What I understand from the decomposition strategy in Oaxaca-Blinder technique and may be I am totally wrong, the discrimination is becuase of the differentials in the regression coefficients which are assumed otherwise same for both the groups. Positive and negative signs just indicates positive or negative discrimination. More details in the paper send earlier. Hope this explains what you want. Anees On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Sol Kizzy Ruiz Rodriguez <solky54@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Statalist, > > I am decomposing the white female (high mod) - black female (low mod) > wage gap using oaxaca command in Stata. > > I got negative value for the unexplained portion (differential due to > coefficients a.k.a. discrimination). And when I looked closer, most of > this -negativity- is due to the effect of the intercept coefficient. > > Now, I am wondering how to interpret this negative value. > * > * For searches and help try: > * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search > * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq > * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/ -- Best --------------------------- Muhammad Anees Assistant Professor/Programme Coordinator COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Attock 43600, Pakistan http://www.aneconomist.com * * For searches and help try: * http://www.stata.com/help.cgi?search * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/