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

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 3 Gender wage gap decomposition by sector, 1960-2000

	1960-1989	1994	1996	1998	2000
Male-dominated (MD) occupations
Observed	0.027	0.164	0.099	0.081	0.146
Endowments	−0.096	−0.026	−0.049	−0.043	−0.116
Selectivity	−0.481	−0.073	−0.077	−0.204	−1.394
Unexplained	0.585	0.257	0.226	0.333	1.649
Gender-integrated (GI) occupations
Observed	0.316	0.217	0.245	0.202	0.219
Endowments	0.070	−0.016	−0.006	−0.013	−0.011
Selectivity	0.040	−0.104	−0.103	−0.102	0.054
Unexplained	0.198	0.332	0.352	0.315	0.177
Female-dominated (FD) occupations
Observed	0.009	0.110	0.115	0.081	0.145
Endowments	−0.051	−0.009	0.002	−0.025	0.015
Selectivity	0.516	−0.053	0.186	0.551	1.723
Unexplained	−0.458	0.168	−0.068	−0.446	−1.590

Notes: Observed represents total wage gap in mean wages. The total wage gap is decomposed into three parts: Endowments that represents the contribution to the wage gap from differences in observables; Selectivity represents the contribution from differences in unobservables and, Unexplanied that represents the contribution from differences in return to observables.