Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/223760 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 13318
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Northern Ireland forms an important outlier to the established international pattern of a pronounced gender pay gap in favour of men. Using contemporary data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey we provide a comprehensive analysis of the 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 largely be attributed to the superior productivity-related characteristics of women relative to men in Northern Ireland, which partially offset the influence of gender differences in the returns to these characteristics. Our analysis highlights the importance of occupation â€" both in terms of occupational allocation and the returns to occupations â€" in explaining the cross-country differential. This is reinforced by the impact of lower earnings inequality in Northern Ireland.
Subjects: 
Labour Force Survey
decomposition analysis
pay discrimination
gender pay gap
Northern Ireland
JEL: 
J16
J31
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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