Appendix D Alternative Decompositions

Table D.1 – Decompositions of income differentials based on alternative specifications: all employed males and females
Income differential explained by:	1986			1996

Males
Overall difference	0.25064	0.16121	0.22514	0.35388	0.23317	0.31301
Alternative weights:
Effect of characteristics	0.16509	0.13680	0.09981	0.22114	0.17654	0.13153
	(65.9%)	(84.9%)	(44.3%)	(62.5%)	(75.7%)	(42.0%)
Effect of coefficients	0.08542	0.0244	0.12533	013274	0.05663	0.18148
( b_0E – b_0M/P/O)+	(34.1%)	(15.1%)	(515.7%)	(37.5%)	24.3%)	(58.0%)
Equation 2 weights, reported in Table 3:
Effect of characteristics	0.18199	0.14181	0.04331	0.23184	0.18064	0.04812
9	(72.6%)	(88.0%)	(19.2%)	(65.5%)	(77.5%)	(15.4%)
Effect of coefficients	0.06865	0.0194	0.18183	0.12204	0.05253	0.26489
( b_0E – b_0M/P/O)+	(27.4%)	(12.0%)	(80.8%)	(34.5%)	(22.5%)	(84.6%)
Females
Overall difference	0.09795	0.04198	0.00642	0.15531	0.10585	0.08972
Alternative weights:
Effect of characteristics	0.08997	0.03045	0.00590	0.13769	0.08893	0.04932
	(91.9%)	(72.5%)	(91.9%)	(88.7%)	(84.0%)	(55.0%)
Effect of coefficients	0.00798	0.01153	0.00052	0.01762	0.01692	0.0404
( b_0E – b_0M/P/O)+	(8.1%)	(27.5%)	(8.1%)	(11.3%)	(16.0%)	(45.0%)
Equation 2 weights, reported in Table 3:
Effect of characteristics	0.09007	0.02963	-0.00510	0.11610	0.08367	0.02149
	(92.0%)	(70.6%)	(-79.5%)	(74.7%)	(79.0%)	(24.0%)
Effect of coefficients	0.00788	0.01235	0.01152	0.03921	0.02218	0.06823
( b_0E – b_0M/P/O)+	(8.0%)	(29.4%)	(179.5%)	(25.3%)	(21.0%)	(76.0%)

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