Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: from planned equality to market inequality?

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 2 Overall gender wage gap decomposition, all occupations 1960-2000

	1960-1989	1994	1996	1998	2000
Observed	0.280	0.205	0.221	0.189	0.214
Endowments	0.048	−0.016	−0.009	−0.016	−0.015
Occupational	0.001	−0.125	−0.091	−0.041	0.252
Selectivity	0.050	0.040	0.035	0.022	−0.061
Unexplained	0.172	0.302	0.286	0.223	0.036

Notes: Observed represents total wage gap in mean wages. The total wage gap is decomposed into four parts: Endowments that represents the contribution to the wage gap from differences in observables; Occupational represents the contribution from unequal distribution of men and women over occupational groups; Selectivity represents the contribution from differences in unobservables and finally, Unexplanied that represents the contribution from differences in return to observables.