What is the Role of Firm-Specific Pay Policies on the Gender Earnings Gap in Canada?

Jiang Li, Benoit Dostie and Gaëlle Simard-Duplain

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Abstract: Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, we examine the impact of firms’ hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), we find that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female and male workers. On average, firms’ hiring practices – due to difference in the relative proportion of women hired at high-wage firms, or sorting – and pay-setting policies – due to differences in pay by gender within similar firms – each explain about one half of this firm effect. The compositional difference between the two channels varies substantially over the life-cycle, by parental and marital status, and across provinces.

Keywords: Gender Wage Gap; Firm Effects; Marital Status; Linked Employer-Employee Data; Pay-Setting; Sorting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 J51 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-12-14
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-hrm and nep-lab
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