Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/236472 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 14441
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper estimates the raw and adjusted gender pay gap in Ireland between 2011 and 2018, a period of austerity measures and recovery from the Great Recession. Using survey data sources linked to administrative information on earnings, we show that the raw gender wage gap across the wage distribution has not changed much over this period: it is larger for higher earners and is mainly concentrated in the private sector. Using a Distribution Regression method, we estimate the relative contributions of explained and unexplained components to the overall gender wage gap at each point at the wage distribution and summarise the findings by wage quantile. The explained gender wage gap is negative, indicating that women have better labour market characteristics than men, on average. The unexplained gender wage gap is positive and increases with the wage level. This results in a small or zero gender wage gap at the bottom of the wage distribution which rises to 10% at the top of the wage distribution. The stability of the gender pay gap across the wage distribution in the private sector over the period suggest the strong structural inequalities, that are unlikely to change without significant interventions
Subjects: 
gender pay gap
occupational segregation
discrimination
Ireland
JEL: 
J31
J71
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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