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st: Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion


From   Sol Kizzy Ruiz Rodriguez <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   st: Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion Oaxaca - Negative value for unexplained portion
Date   Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:38:56 -0500

Dear Statalist,

I am decomposing the white female (high mod) - black female (low mod)
wage gap using oaxaca command in Stata.

I got negative value for the unexplained portion (differential due to
coefficients a.k.a. discrimination). And when I looked closer, most of
this -negativity- is due to the effect of the intercept coefficient.

Now, I am wondering how to interpret this negative value.
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