Table A13.4:
Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition for May: Five Occupation Groups
| 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 B | ||||||||||||
| Mgmt/Tech/Arts | −0.0056 | 23.54% | 0.0013 | −2.75% | 0.0021 | −6.16% | −0.0026 | 2.69% | 0.0075 | −25.88% | 0.0014 | −1.71% |
| Service | −0.0166 | 69.33% | −0.0102 | 22.07% | −0.0034 | 9.88% | −0.0341 | 35.34% | −0.0163 | 56.51% | −0.0267 | 33.00% |
| Sales/Office | −0.0089 | 37.10% | −0.0015 | 3.15% | −0.0013 | 3.86% | −0.0138 | 14.35% | 0.0106 | −36.77% | −0.0070 | 8.69% |
| Constr/Nat. Res. | 0.0123 | −51.46% | −0.0077 | 16.74% | 0.0037 | −10.74% | 0.0006 | −0.64% | −0.0119 | 41.26% | −0.0132 | 16.33% |
| Prod./Trans. | 0.0101 | −42.03% | −0.0046 | 9.95% | −0.0094 | 27.23% | 0.0003 | −0.28% | −0.0063 | 21.93% | −0.0175 | 21.62% |
| Model C | ||||||||||||
| Mgmt/Tech/Arts | −0.0078 | 32.68% | 0.0037 | −7.95% | 0.0020 | −5.78% | −0.0009 | 0.90% | 0.0090 | −31.15% | 0.0087 | −10.75% |
| Service | −0.0140 | 58.70% | −0.0059 | 12.75% | −0.0044 | 12.62% | −0.0288 | 29.85% | −0.0118 | 41.04% | −0.0202 | 25.00% |
| Sales/Office | −0.0080 | 33.31% | −0.0012 | 2.59% | −0.0018 | 5.19% | −0.0108 | 11.23% | 0.0125 | −43.15% | −0.0060 | 7.42% |
| Constr/Nat. Res. | 0.0106 | −44.09% | −0.0070 | 15.04% | 0.0033 | −9.68% | 0.0003 | −0.31% | −0.0115 | 39.70% | −0.0119 | 14.73% |
| Prod./Trans. | 0.0090 | −37.72% | −0.0047 | 10.14% | −0.0103 | 29.98% | −0.0007 | 0.75% | −0.0058 | 20.08% | −0.0157 | 19.39% |
Notes: This table reports the share of variation explained by sorting across five top-level categories in the Census occupational classification system: “Management, Business, Science, and Arts”, “Service”, “Sales and Office”, “Natural Resources, Construction, and Maintenance”, “Production, Transportation, and Material Moving”. A sixth category, “Military Specific Operations”, does not appear because the CPS is a survey of the civilian non-institutional population. The shares of the five categories of occupations add up to the share of “All Occupation” in Model B and Model C in Table A13.3. Entries in bold are statistically significant at the 5% level.