TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries
AU - Penner, Andrew M.
AU - Petersen, Trond
AU - Hermansen, Are Skeie
AU - Rainey, Anthony
AU - Boza, István
AU - Elvira, Marta M.
AU - Godechot, Olivier
AU - Hällsten, Martin
AU - Henriksen, Lasse Folke
AU - Hou, Feng
AU - Mrčela, Aleksandra Kanjuo
AU - King, Joe
AU - Kodama, Naomi
AU - Kristal, Tali
AU - Křížková, Alena
AU - Lippényi, Zoltán
AU - Melzer, Silvia Maja
AU - Mun, Eunmi
AU - Apascaritei, Paula
AU - Avent-Holt, Dustin
AU - Bandelj, Nina
AU - Hajdu, Gergely
AU - Jung, Jiwook
AU - Poje, Andreja
AU - Sabanci, Halil
AU - Safi, Mirna
AU - Soener, Matthew
AU - Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald
AU - Tufail, Zaibu
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Science Foundation (Award 0525831; D.A., A.M.P. and D.T.), the Humboldt Foundation (grant number AR8227; D.T.), the Research Council of Norway (grant number 287016; A.S.H.), European Research Council ERC Starting Grant (grant number 851149; A.S.H.), the European Research Council ERC Starting Grant (grant number 677739; T.K.), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (grant ANR-17-CE41-0009-01; M. Safi and O.G.), the Independent Research Fund Denmark (grant number 5052-00143b; L.H.), the European Social Fund and state budget of the Czechia (grant number CZ.03.1.51/0.0/0.0/15_009/0003702; A.K.), the Czech NPO Systemic Risk Institute (LX22NPO5101; A.K.), and institutional support (RVO: 68378025; A.K.), the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant number PID2020-118807RB-I00/AEI /10.13039/501100011033; M.E.), the Fritz Henkel Stiftung (Endowed PhD Scholarship; HS) and Swedish Forte (grant number 2015-00807; M.H.), and Z.L. received support from the European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant (grant number 340045). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Research on the US data was conducted by J.K. while J.K. was working for the US Census Bureau. This paper is released to inform interested parties of research and to encourage discussion. The views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the US Census Bureau. Tabular materials presented in this paper were approved for release by the US Census Bureau’s Disclosure Review Board (CBDRB-FY18-258).
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PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z
DO - 10.1038/s41562-022-01470-z
M3 - Article
C2 - 36424396
AN - SCOPUS:85142488734
SN - 2397-3374
VL - 7
SP - 184
EP - 189
JO - Nature human behaviour
JF - Nature human behaviour
IS - 2
ER -