Table 4.
Blinder–Oaxaca decomposition results for people who stutter by gender.
| Earnings decomposition | Male |
Female |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amount of earnings gap due to differences in characteristics | Percentage of total earnings gap | Amount of earnings gap due to differences in characteristics | Percentage of total earnings gap | |
| Total difference | $10,213.78 | 100.00 | $12,678.44 | 100.00 |
| Explained | $9,163.19 | 89.71 | $4,561.31 | 35.98 |
| Background | $1,644.43 | 16.10 | $ −94.52 | −0.75 |
| Comorbidities | $30.30 | 0.03 | $751.93 | 5.93 |
| Education | $1,256.72 | 12.30 | $2,564.54 | 20.23 |
| Self-stigma | $1,715.04 | 16.79 | $443.75 | 3.50 |
| Occupation | $3,418.65 | 33.47 | $1,489.33 | 11.75 |
| Weekly hours | $1,098.05 | 10.76 | $ −593.71 | −4.68 |
| Unexplained | $1,050.59 | 10.29 | $8,117.13 | 64.02 |
Note. “Background” includes the following variables: age, race, ethnicity, attractiveness, height, weight, and parental income, marital status, and educational level.