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st: Oaxaca Negative Interpret Proportion
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Jolene Cheung <[email protected]>
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st: Oaxaca Negative Interpret Proportion
Date
Wed, 9 Jan 2013 22:13:38 +0000
Hi all,
I am decomposing the wage gap between different groups of ethnic minorities using OAXACA in stata and I am interesting the proportion between the explained vs. unexplained in the wage gap.
In Jann(2008), he notes for a positive explained figure that the differences in endowments account for about half the wage gap. But I have negative values for the explained portion and positive values for the unexplained and a positive difference.
Can anyone help me with the interpretation?
Thanks very much,
Jo
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