Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps

By Hugo Opo. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008

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This paper presents a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender wage differences. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides insights into the distribution of unexplained gender pay differences. This nonparametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition does not require the estimation of earnings equations and divides the gap into four additive elements. Two of these are analogous to the elements of the BO decomposition (but computed only over the common support of the distributions of characteristics), while the other two account for differences in the supports.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Cities, Territories, and Inclusive Growth: Unraveling Urban–Rural Linkages in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico (2015, background): “Various studies confirm that large salary gaps are to the detriment of women who are often paid less to do the same jobs as men, despite having similar qualifications (Paredes & Riveros, 1994; Ñopo, 2008) and there are also reports in urban environments of absolute income gaps which are greater than”
Why do occupations dominated by women pay less? How ‘female-typical’ work tasks and working-time arrangements affect the gender wage gap among higher education graduates (2016, background): “There are other methodological approaches in the area of matching techniques which address this problem more directly (Frölich, 2007; Ñopo, 2008).”
Capital misallocation in China: Financial frictions or policy distortions? (2018, methodology): “The causal chain in case B is similar to the one used for analyzing gender wage gap, such as in Nopo (2008).11 To use this setup, we restrict our sample to those rms with constant ownership throughout our sample period so that the observed rm characteristics Xi;t 1 will be the consequence rather…”
Propensity Score Matching without Conditional Independence Assumption - With an Application to the Gender Wage Gap in the United Kingdom (2007, unknown): “Several recent studies have demonstrated that the functional form assumptions inherent in the parametric Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition can give misleading results (See e.g. Barsky et al. 2002; Mora 2008; Nopo 2004).”