Discrimination, segregation and firm effects: some UK microevidence

Felix FitzRoy and Melanie Ward

Applied Economics Letters, 1999, vol. 6, issue 11, 711-715

Abstract: In samples of employees from two firms, women are segregated in low-pay occupations and therefore receive lower returns on their (similar) educational qualifications than men. In the primary-sector, capital-intensive, unionized firm, all wages are much higher. In the secondary-sector firm, rewarding qualifications and experience at the rates found in the primary firm would increase earnings (including fringe benefits) by about 80%, much more than the usual firm-size or industry differential.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/135048599352277

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