@techreport{Ward1999Salary,
abstract = {The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in
the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for
pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in
the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics
from five traditional Scottish Universities. Results reveal an aggregate gender salary
differential for academic staff of 15%. Most of this differential can, however, be explained by
our model. Evidence suggests a limited opportunity for female academics to combine career
and family, despite the flexibility of an academic job and emphasises the importance of
mobility to the male career. Publication record, but not teaching ability, is found to be an
important determinant of salary. The dominant contribution of rank to both the determination
of female academic salaries and the gender salary gap suggests vastly differential
opportunities for promotion faced by men and women.},
author = {Melanie E. Ward},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J44; 330; Academic labour market; salary; gender differences; Hochschullehrer; Wissenschaftler; Besoldung; Geschlecht; Erwerbsverlauf; Lohndifferenzierung; Familiensoziologie; Gro\ss{}britannien; Schottland},
language = {eng},
number = {64},
title = {Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20899},
year = {1999}
}
