This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap …. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the … analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. The …

There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010-2012, women were … education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …

2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in … experience explains the gender pay gap to almost a quarter according to the present study based on data from the Socio …-Economic Panel (Sozio-ökonomisches Panel, SOEP). In order to reduce the gender pay gap, measures are needed to counteract the large …