• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Who Works for Whom and the UK Gender Pay Gap
  • Contributor: Jewell, Sarah [Author]; Razzu, Giovanni [Other]; Singleton, Carl [Other]
  • Published: [S.l.]: SSRN, [2019]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (44 p)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3137330
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  • Footnote: In: British Journal of Industrial Relations. (2019, Forthcoming)
    Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments April 1, 2019 erstellt
  • Description: This study reports novel facts about the UK gender pay gap. We use a representative, longitudinal and linked employer-employee dataset for 2002-16. Men's average log hourly wage was 22 points higher than women's in this period. We find 16% 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 preadjusted measure of the pay gap, we find less than 1 percentage point or a 6% 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
  • Access State: Open Access