TY - RPRT AU - Yun, Myeong-Su TI - Decomposing Differences in the First Moment PY - 2003/Sep/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 877 UR - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp877 AB - We propose a simple methodology for decomposing differences in the first moment into characteristics and coefficients effects. This methodology provides a way to apply the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a non-linear function for both aggregate and detailed decompositions. KW - coefficients effect KW - characteristics effect KW - decomposition analysis ER -