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Table 2 Decomposition of gender wage differential: Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition with sample selection

From: Gender and caste-based wage discrimination in India: some recent evidenceGeschlecht und Kaste-ansässige Lohndiskriminierung in Indien: Einige Neue Beweise

Components

Rural

Urban

ALL

NSC

SC/ST

ALL

NSC

SC/ST

Prediction (Male)

2.091

2.166

1.986

2.748

2.783

2.631

(0.004)

(0.006)

(0.006)

(0.007)

(0.008)

(0.015)

Prediction (Female)

1.411

1.406

1.412

2.207

2.324

2.083

(0.020)

(0.030)

(0.028)

(0.138)

(0.189)

(0.169)

Raw differential

0.680

0.760

0.574

0.541

0.459

0.547

(0.021)

(0.030)

(0.028)

(0.139)

(0.190)

(0.170)

Using males wage structure:

Explained differential

0.226

0.244

0.179

0.100

0.080

0.112

(0.006)

(0.008)

(0.008)

(0.013)

(0.015)

(0.024)

Unexplained differential

0.454

0.516

0.394

0.441

0.379

0.436

(0.021)

(0.031)

(0.029)

(0.138)

(0.189)

(0.169)

Proportion of explained differential

0.332

0.321

0.312

0.185

0.174

0.204

Proportion of unexplained differential

0.668

0.679

0.688

0.815

0.826

0.796

Using females wage structure:

Explained differential

0.266

0.289

0.196

0.082

0.068

0.064

(0.014)

(0.020)

(0.019)

(0.021)

(0.023)

(0.050)

Unexplained differential

0.414

0.471

0.372

0.459

0.391

0.483

(0.017)

(0.025)

(0.023)

(0.133)

(0.186)

(0.152)

Proportion of explained differential

0.391

0.380

0.342

0.151

0.148

0.118

Proportion of unexplained differential

0.609

0.620

0.658

0.849

0.852

0.882

Observations

31720

17842

13878

15063

11461

3602

  1. Notes: ‘NSC’ denotes non-scheduled castes group (other backward classes and others), and ‘SC/ST’ denotes scheduled castes group (scheduled castes and scheduled tribes). Standard errors are in parentheses