Barr, Tavis; Lin, Carl - 2013
remove biases resulting from time trends and unobserved factors. Smith and Welch (1989) propose a decomposition technique … decomposition, has not been developed. We present a detailed decomposition and provide a Stata estimator for practitioners to … implement our method. Using the convergence of black-white wage between 1960 and 1970 as an example, our detailed decomposition …