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

IZA Journal of European Labor Studies

Table 4 Occupational wage gap (owg) decomposition by gender

		1960-89	1994	1996	1998	2000
Women
MD-FD owg	Observed	– 0.003	– 0.013	0.055	0.052	0.034
	Endowments	0.113	0.077	0.112	0.116	0.168
	Selectivity	1.186	0.985	0.961	0.941	1.051
	Unexplained	– 1.302	– 1.075	– 1.018	– 1.005	– 1.185
MD-GI owg	Observed	0.415	0.120	0.203	0.200	0.199
	Endowments	0.154	– 0.015	0.006	– 0.002	0.036
	Selectivity	0.460	0.451	0.575	0.692	0.687
	Unexplained	– 0.199	– 0.316	– 0.378	– 0.490	– 0.523
FD-GI owg	Observed	0.417	0.133	0.148	0.148	0.165
	Endowments	– 0.004	– 0.110	– 0.112	– 0.057	– 0.029
	Selectivity	– 0.726	– 0.534	– 0.385	– 0.248	– 0.365
	Unexplained	1.147	0.778	0.646	0.453	0.560
Men
MD-FD owg	Observed	0.015	0.040	0.039	0.053	0.034
	Endowments	– 0.064	– 0.026	– 0.045	0.006	– 0.085
	Selectivity	0.207	0.967	0.700	0.181	– 0.669
	Unexplained	– 0.128	– 0.901	– 0.617	– 0.134	0.789
MD-GI owg	Observed	0.126	0.067	0.057	0.079	0.126
	Endowments	– 0.018	– 0.040	– 0.036	– 0.025	– 0.045
	Selectivity	– 0.050	0.483	0.598	0.584	0.007
	Unexplained	0.194	– 0.377	– 0.505	– 0.481	0.163
FD-GI owg	Observed	0.110	0.026	0.019	0.026	0.091
	Endowments	0.094	– 0.050	– 0.045	– 0.089	– 0.005
	Selectivity	– 0.257	– 0.484	– 0.102	0.404	0.676
	Unexplained	0.273	0.560	0.166	– 0.288	– 0.580

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.