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Who Works for Whom and the UK Gender Pay Gap

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Jewell SL, Razzu G & Singleton C (2020) Who Works for Whom and the UK Gender Pay Gap. British Journal of Industrial Relations, 58 (1), pp. 50-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12497

Abstract
This study reports novel facts about the UK gender pay gap. We use a representative, longitudinal and linked employer¨Cemployee dataset for 2002¨C2016. Men's average log hourly wage was 22 points higher than women's in this period. We find that 16 per cent of this raw pay gap is accounted for by estimated firm-specific wage effects. This is almost three times the amount explained by gender occupation differences. When we decompose a pre-adjusted measure of the pay gap, we find less than 1 percentage point or a 6 per cent share is accounted for by the gender allocation across high- and low-wage firms. In other words, only a small share of what is traditionally referred to as the ¡®unexplained¡¯ part of the pay gap is explained by the differences between men and women in whom they work for.

Keywords
Management of Technology and Innovation; Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management; General Business, Management and Accounting

Journal
British Journal of Industrial Relations: Volume 58, Issue 1

StatusPublished
Funders
Publication date31/03/2020
Publication date online18/02/2020
Date accepted by journal06/09/2019
PublisherWiley
ISSN0007-1080
eISSN1467-8543

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Dr Carl Singleton

Dr Carl Singleton

Senior Lecturer in Economics, Economics