DECOMPOSITION OF CHANGES IN HONG KONG WAGE DISPERSION SIN...
Kai Wai, Huang
Wage dispersion is one of the social and economic issues arousing public concern in Hong Kong. In foreign studies on wage dispersion, Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, originated from Oaxaca (1974) and Blinder (1973), is a common method of decomposing changes or differences in mean wages between two groups into wage structure effect and composition effect, and then further decomposing the two effects into contributions of each control variable. Th...