Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

Andrew M. Penner (), Trond Petersen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Anthony Rainey, István Boza, Marta M. Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela, Joe King, Naomi Kodama, Tali Kristal, Alena Křížková, 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 and Zaibu Tufail
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Andrew M. Penner: University of California, Irvine
Trond Petersen: University of California, Berkeley
Are Skeie Hermansen: University of Oslo
Anthony Rainey: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Marta M. Elvira: IESE Business School
Martin Hällsten: Stockholm University
Lasse Folke Henriksen: Copenhagen Business School
Feng Hou: Statistics Canada
Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela: University of Ljubljana
Joe King: Meiji Gakuin University
Naomi Kodama: Meiji Gakuin University
Tali Kristal: University of Haifa
Alena Křížková: Czech Academy of Sciences
Zoltán Lippényi: University of Groningen
Silvia Maja Melzer: Meiji Gakuin University
Eunmi Mun: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Paula Apascaritei: Meiji Gakuin University
Dustin Avent-Holt: Augusta University
Nina Bandelj: University of California, Irvine
Jiwook Jung: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Andreja Poje: University of Ljubljana
Halil Sabanci: Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
Mirna Safi: CRIS-CNRS, Sciences Po
Matthew Soener: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Zaibu Tufail: University of California, Irvine

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023, vol. 7, issue 2, 184-189

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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