Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

Penner, Andrew M. (author), Kanjuo-Mrčela, Aleksandra (author), Poje, Andreja (author)

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 diferences 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 diferent jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay diferences than was previously believed and that within-job pay diferences remain consequential.

• Language: English
• Keywords: gender inequality, pay, discrimination
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2022
• Number of pages: 1 spletni vir (1 datoteka PDF ([6] str.)
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-142841
• UDC: 316.346.2:005.955
• ISSN on article: 2397-3374
• DOI: 10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z
• COBISS.SI-ID: 131545347
• Publication date in RUL: 29.11.2022

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Nature human behaviour
• Shortened title: Nat. hum. behav.
• Publisher: Macmillan, part of Springer Nature
• ISSN: 2397-3374
• COBISS.SI-ID: 23013384

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: enakost spolov, plače, diskriminacija

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: European Commission
• Project number: 677739
• Name: The Resurgence in Wage Inequality and Technological Change: A New Approach
• Acronym: CBTC

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Funding programme: European Commission
• Project number: 340045
• Name: Investments in a sustainable workforce in Europe: causes and consequences in comparative perspective
• Acronym: SUSTAINABLEWORKFORCE