Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in … gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. Despite the relatively common institutional … and policy context, the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland is found to be far smaller than in the rest of the UK. This can …

Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in … gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and make comparisons to the rest of the UK. Despite the relatively common institutional … and policy context, the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland is found to be far smaller than in the rest of the UK. This can …

In this study we quantify the size and drivers of the contemporary gender pay gap among medical doctors employed in the … substantial 20 per cent hourly gender pay gap among public sector doctors is far larger than in either of these comparator … occupations. Decomposing the mean gender pay gap for public sector doctors, we find that it is largely unexplained by personal and …

Since April 2017 UK employers with over 250 employees have been required to publicly report their gender pay gap each … year. We exploit this recent source of panel data on employer-level gender pay gaps to provide new insights for the … established literature on the gender pay gap based predominately on employee information. More specifically, we explore the …

Motivated by the introduction of the UK Gender Pay Gap Reporting legislation to large firms, defined as over 250 …-legislation variation in the gender pay gap by firm size. In doing so, we integrate two prominent but distinct empirical regularities in the … labour economics literature, namely the gender pay gap and firm-size wage premium. We find evidence of both a larger raw and …

This paper explores the role of performance-related pay to the UK gender pay gap at the mean and across the earnings … jobs explaining 12 per cent of the observed mean gender pay gap and making a larger contribution than many work …-related pay jobs is more important in explaining the gender pay gap at the top end of the wage distribution, consistent with …

This paper examines the ongoing impact of gender pay gap transparency legislation using a sudden COVID-19-induced …, reporting organisations have a 6% lower gender pay gap a year later. This is driven by a relative increase in females in the top … hypothesis that ongoing reporting is most effective in organisations with weaker pre-existing pressures to narrow their gender …