Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

Andrew Penner; Trond Petersen; Are Skeie Hermansen; Anthony Rainey; István Boza; Elvira Marta; Olivier Godechot; Martin Hällsten; Lasse Folke Henriksen; Feng Hou; Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela; Joe King; Naomi Kodama; Tali Kristal; Alena Krízková; Zoltán Lippényi; Silvia Maja Melzer; Eunmi Mun; Paula Apascaritei; Dustin Avent-Holt; Nina Bandelj; Gergely Hajdu; Jiwook Jung; Andreja Poje; Halil Sabanci; Mirna Safi; Matthew Soener; Donald Tomaskovic-Devey; Zaibu Tufail

doi:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z

Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Anthony Rainey, István Boza, Elvira Marta, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela, Joe King, Naomi Kodama, Tali Kristal, Alena Krízková, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Paula Apascaritei, Dustin Avent-HoltNina Bandelj, Gergely Hajdu, Jiwook Jung, Andreja Poje, Halil Sabanci, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Zaibu Tufail

Department für Volkswirtschaft (Sausgruber)

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Abstract

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.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Fachzeitschrift	Nature Human Behaviour
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z
Publikationsstatus	Elektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 24 Nov. 2022

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Penner, A., Petersen, T., Skeie Hermansen, A., Rainey, A., Boza, I., Marta, E., Godechot, O., Hällsten, M., Folke Henriksen, L., Hou, F., Kanjuo-Mrcela, A., King, J., Kodama, N., Kristal, T., Krízková, A., Lippényi, Z., Maja Melzer, S., Mun, E., Apascaritei, P., ... Tufail, Z. (2022). Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z

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