Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …

The gender pay gap under central planning and its changes in the course of transition have only lately attracted the … planning and during the period of transition to market economy. The JMP decomposition, which accounts for changes in overall … wage dispersion over time beyond Oaxaca.s standard decomposition, is applied on large set of HBS data and reveals some …

The Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition technique is widely used to identify and quantify the separate contributions of group … and gender gaps in outcomes. The technique cannot be used directly, however, if the outcome is binary and the coefficients … are from a logit or probit model. I describe a relatively simple method of performing a decomposition that uses estimates …