Science’s vast gender pay gap revealed in UK wage data

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates

Motivation, Expectations and the Gender Pay Gap for UK Graduates Focussing on recent UK graduates, a wage gap of 12% is found. The unexplained component of the gap is small and a large fraction of the gap can be explained by subject choice, job characteristics, motivation and expectation variables. Motivation and expectations account for 44% of the explained gap, thus most studies over-estimate...

The Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries

The Gender Wage Gap in Four Countries In a series of studies written during the 1980s Bob Gregory and his co-authors compared the gender wage gap in Australia with that found in other countries. They found it was not the difference in human capital endowments that explained different gender wage gaps but rather the rewards for these endowments. They concluded that country-specific factors, espe...

The Gender Wage Gap and Pay Equity: Is Comparable Worth the Next Step?

Effects of Anti-Secrecy Pay Laws on the Gender Wage Gap