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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
Status | Published |
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Publication date | 31/03/2020 |
Publication date online | 18/02/2020 |
Date accepted by journal | 06/09/2019 |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 0007-1080 |
eISSN | 1467-8543 |
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Economics