The Gender Pay Gap for Private-Sector Employees in Canada and Britain

The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain

The Gender Pay Gap for Private Sector Employees in Canada and Britain This paper uses British and Canadian linked employer-employee data to investigate the importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Implementing a novel decomposition approach, we find high levels of unexplained wage inequality in the private sector of both countries, which is related to women receiving relatively lowe...

The Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain 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 indi...

Understanding the public sector pay gap

*Correspondence: [email protected] 4Bank of Spain, Calle Alcalá 48, 28014 Madrid, Spain Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract We uncover the shortand long-run structural determinants of the existing cross-country heterogeneity in public-private pay differentials for a broad set of OECD countries. We explore micro data (EU-SILC, 2004–2012) and macro dat...

the search for the self in becketts theatre: waiting for godot and endgame

this thesis is based upon the works of samuel beckett. one of the greatest writers of contemporary literature. here, i have tried to focus on one of the main themes in becketts works: the search for the real "me" or the real self, which is not only a problem to be solved for beckett man but also for each of us. i have tried to show becketts techniques in approaching this unattainable goal, base...