The Disability Pay Gap Within and Across Firms

John Forth and Melanie K. Jones ()
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Melanie K. Jones: Cardiff University

No 17679, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: We assess the extent to which the UK disability pay gap is a consequence of the distribution of workers across firms and within-firm disability pay gaps. We do so by applying decomposition methods to newly-linked data which matches high quality information from employer payroll records to Census data on disability. Our findings indicate that the distribution of disabled and non-disabled employees across firms acts to reinforce within-firm disability-related pay inequality in England and Wales. However, both the disability pay gap and unexplained disability pay gap predominately exist within rather than between firms, supporting the introduction of employer disability pay gap reporting in the UK.

Keywords: disability pay gap; wage discrimination; linked employer-employee data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2025-02
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-hea, nep-hrm and nep-lma
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