TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Sloczynski, Tymon
        TI  - Average Wage Gaps and Oaxaca–Blinder Decompositions
        PY  - 2015/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9036
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp9036
        AB  - In this paper I develop a new version of the Oaxaca–Blinder decomposition whose unexplained component recovers a parameter which I refer to as the average wage gap. Under a particular conditional independence assumption, this estimand is equivalent to the average treatment effect (ATE). I also provide treatment-effects reinterpretations of the Reimers, Cotton, and Fortin decompositions as well as estimate average wage gaps, average wage gains for men, and average wage losses for women in the United Kingdom. Conditional wage gaps increase across the wage distribution and therefore, on average, male gains are larger than female losses.
        KW  - glass ceilings
KW  - gender wage gaps
KW  - decomposition methods
KW  - treatment effects
        ER  -