The social pay gap among occupational twins: a task-based comparison

Elisabeth Sattler-Bublitz and Tobias Regner

Economics Bulletin, 2020, vol. 40, issue 3, 2440-2444

Abstract: The relevance of certain occupations for society has become evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the societal appreciation does not show in earnings, particularly not for care work. In light of the ongoing calls for pay raises in these occupations, our paper provides a rationale to identify differences in job content and pay between social and other occupations. We propose a data-driven approach that compares all jobs based on their tasks content. Accordingly, 13 % of all occupations are highly comparable and, within this group, the wage penalty of social occupations (e.g., health care, education) corresponds to up to around €500 lower earnings per month.

Keywords: Inequality; tasks data; redistribution; social returns (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D2 J3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-09-24
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2020/Volume40/EB-20-V40-I3-P213.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-20-00646

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().