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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Demography. 2022 Jun 1;59(3):827–855. doi: 10.1215/00703370-9961471

Table A13.3:

Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition for May

Male/Female Non-hispanic/Hispanic White/Black Older/Younger HS/non-HS Coll/non-Coll
Estimate Share Estimate Share Estimate Share Estimate Share Estimate Share Estimate Share
Raw Gap −0.0239 100.00% −0.0462 100.00% −0.0345 100.00% −0.0965 100.00% −0.0289 100.00% −0.0810 100.00%
Model A
Explained 0.0058 −24.12% −0.0265 57.33% −0.0126 36.50% −0.0404 41.90% −0.0144 49.75% −0.0388 47.89%
demographic 0.0035 −14.79% −0.0104 22.44% −0.0072 20.81% −0.0229 23.74% −0.0022 7.62% −0.0055 6.78%
Children under 6 0.0000 0.00% 0.0000 0.00% 0.0000 0.01% 0.0007 −0.73% 0.0000 0.17% −0.0001 0.07%
FacetoFace −0.0029 12.24% 0.0001 −0.28% −0.0017 4.83% −0.0037 3.84% 0.0017 −5.72% −0.0009 1.14%
Remote Work 0.0121 −50.40% −0.0175 37.80% −0.0080 23.31% −0.0200 20.72% −0.0208 71.97% −0.0428 52.82%
Essential −0.0071 29.71% 0.0048 −10.32% 0.0023 −6.67% 0.0038 −3.89% 0.0077 −26.62% 0.0092 −11.38%
State 0.0002 −0.86% −0.0036 7.70% 0.0020 −5.79% 0.0017 −1.79% −0.0007 2.34% 0.0012 −1.54%
Unexplained −0.0297 124.12% −0.0197 42.67% −0.0219 63.50% −0.0560 58.10% −0.0145 50.25% −0.0422 52.11%
Model B
Explained −0.0128 53.61% −0.0261 56.48% −0.0075 21.65% −0.0570 59.06% −0.0118 40.72% −0.0572 70.58%
demographic 0.0022 −9.37% −0.0064 13.76% −0.0038 11.15% −0.0142 14.76% −0.0020 7.06% −0.0050 6.16%
Children under 6 0.0001 −0.29% −0.0001 0.23% 0.0000 −0.02% 0.0018 −1.82% −0.0002 0.72% 0.0001 −0.13%
All Occupations −0.0087 36.48% −0.0227 49.16% −0.0083 24.08% −0.0496 51.46% −0.0165 57.04% −0.0631 77.94%
Essential −0.0065 27.33% 0.0044 −9.50% 0.0021 −6.08% 0.0038 −3.90% 0.0069 −23.93% 0.0099 −12.25%
State 0.0001 −0.54% −0.0013 2.84% 0.0026 −7.49% 0.0014 −1.44% 0.0000 −0.17% 0.0009 −1.14%
Unexplained −0.0111 46.39% −0.0201 43.52% −0.0270 78.35% −0.0395 40.94% −0.0171 59.28% −0.0238 29.42%
Model C
Explained −0.0161 67.23% −0.0308 66.72% −0.0090 26.03% −0.0648 67.14% −0.0154 53.23% −0.0589 72.74%
demographic 0.0018 −7.70% −0.0053 11.52% −0.0031 8.99% −0.0125 12.93% −0.0013 4.44% −0.0042 5.23%
Children under 6 0.0001 −0.38% −0.0001 0.30% 0.0000 −0.02% 0.0024 −2.51% −0.0002 0.61% 0.0001 −0.15%
All Occupations −0.0103 42.87% −0.0151 32.57% −0.0111 32.33% −0.0409 42.42% −0.0077 26.52% −0.0452 55.79%
Industry-Essential 0.0042 −17.61% −0.0107 23.22% 0.0025 −7.20% −0.0076 7.84% −0.0194 67.28% −0.0106 13.13%
Industry-nonEssential −0.0121 50.76% 0.0024 −5.13% 0.0003 −0.97% −0.0079 8.15% 0.0134 −46.46% 0.0000 0.06%
State 0.0002 −0.70% −0.0020 4.25% 0.0024 −7.10% 0.0016 −1.69% −0.0002 0.85% 0.0011 −1.32%
Unexplained −0.0078 32.77% −0.0154 33.28% −0.0255 73.97% −0.0317 32.86% −0.0135 46.77% −0.0221 27.26%

Notes: This table shows Oaxaca decomposition of gap in the proportion of workers recently unemployed in May. Entries in bold are statistically significant at the 5% level. Model A includes two indexes describing occupational characteristics: the Face-to-Face index and Remote Working index. Model B includes a full set of 523 occupation dummies. Model C includes a full set of 523 occupation dummies and 261 industry dummies. All models include basic socio-demographic controls, including age, age squared, gender, race, ethnicity, education, and state fixed effects. All regressions use CPS sample weights. In Models B and C, we reported the aggregated shares of explanation by the 523 occupations, while we list the shares of explanation by five occupation categories in Table A13.4. For Model C, we report the shares of explanation of industries in two groups: essential industry and non-essential industry.