Bryson, A;
Joshi, H;
Wielgoszewska, B;
Wilkinson, D;
(2020)
A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain.
(IZA Discussion Papers
13289).
IZA Institute of Labor Economics: Bonn, Germany.
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Abstract
After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to the Equal Pay Act. The GWG has closed across birth cohorts at all points in the adult life-cycle but remains. Within birth cohort it rises to middle age before falling again. Among those born in 1958, the raw GWG was 16 percentage points among workers aged 23, rising to 35 percentage points at 42. Among those born in 1970 the gaps were 9 and 31 percentage points at age 26 and age 42 respectively. Differences in men’s and women’s work experience in mid-life account for much but not all of the raw gap in both cohorts. The GWG is a little larger early in the life cycle when accounting for non-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered.
| Type: | Working / discussion paper |
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| Title: | A Short History of the Gender Wage Gap in Britain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://ftp.iza.org/dp13289.pdf |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | gender wage gap, birth cohorts, labour force participation, employment selection, sample attrition |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10098275 |
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