TY - RPRT AU - Bauer, Thomas K. AU - Sinning, Mathias TI - Blinder-Oaxaca Decomposition for Tobit Models PY - 2005/Oct/ PB - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) CY - Bonn T2 - IZA Discussion Paper IS - 1795 UR - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp1795 AB - In this paper, a decomposition method for Tobit-models is derived, which allows the differences in a censored outcome variable between two groups to be decomposed into a part that is explained by differences in observed characteristics and a part attributable to differences in the estimated coefficients. The method is applied to a decomposition of the gender wage gap using German data. KW - Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition KW - Tobit model KW - wage gap ER -