Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the...

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Autores: Penner, Andrew M., Melzer, Silvia Maja, Tufail, Zaibu
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositório:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/56851
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56851
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Social policy
Sociology
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Resumo:Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the same employer are rare, and research informing this crucial aspect of gender differences in pay is several decades old and from a limited number of countries. Here, using recent linked employer–employee data from 15 countries, we show that the processes sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than was previously believed and that within-job pay differences remain consequential.