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The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

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Karen Mumford
Peter N Smith

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The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by the workplace in which the employee works. Evidence for workplace and occupational segregation as partial explanations of the earnings gap is presented. Having allowed also for individual worker characteristics there remains a substantial within-workplace and within-occupation gender earnings gap. The contribution of these factors, as well as the earnings gap itself, differ significantly across sectors of the labour market. The relative unimportance of occupational segregation and the large remaining gender earnings gap suggest that stronger enforcement of Equal Pay legislation is likely to be the most appropriate policy response.

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Keywords: Gender earnings; wage-gap; fixed-effects; segregation;

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J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
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  1. Monojit Chatterji & Karen Mumford & Peter N. Smith, 2007. "The Public-Private Sector Gender Wage Differential: Evidence from Matched Employee-Workplace Data," IZA Discussion Papers 3158, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  2. Monojit Chatterji & Karen Mumford & Peter N Smith, 2007. "The Public-Private Sector Wage Differential: Gender, Workplaces and Family Friendliness," Discussion Papers 202, University of Dundee, Economic Studies. [Downloadable!]
  3. Stephen Pudney & Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, 2006. "Firm-Specific Gender and Ethnicity Pay Differentials in Britain," University of Cyprus Working Papers in Economics 9-2006, University of Cyprus Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Karen Mumford & Peter N. Smith, 2007. "Assessing the Importance of Male and Female Part-Time Work for the Gender Earnings Gap in Britain," IZA Discussion Papers 2981, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
  6. Anne Daly & Akira Kawaguchi & Xin Meng & Karen Mumford, 2006. "The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries," IZA Discussion Papers 1921, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). [Downloadable!]
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