The project was led by the fabulous Andrew Penner, used the within-job analytic approach developed by Trond Petersen to study gender pay gaps, and made possible by collaboration within the Comparative Organizational Inequality Network (COIN), which is coordinated by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
There is wide cross-national variation in the size of the gender pay gaps, but in no country is the within-job share less than 35% of the total gender gap in annual earnings. For countries with data on hourly wages, auxiliary analyses show a qualitatively similar pattern.
Our study in Nature Human Behaviour is now out! Using data on some 25+ million observations per year, across 15 countries, we show that women earn less than men who are working for the same employer in the same occupation.
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-022-01470-z
Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries - Nature Human Behaviour
Using data from 15 countries, Penner et al. find that women earn less than men who are working for the same employer in the same occupation. These results highlight the continued importance of equal pay for equal work.
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