Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/314576 
Year of Publication: 
2025
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17679
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We assess the extent to which the UK disability pay gap is a consequence of the distribution of workers across firms and within-firm disability pay gaps. We do so by applying decomposition methods to newly-linked data which matches high quality information from employer payroll records to Census data on disability. Our findings indicate that the distribution of disabled and non-disabled employees across firms acts to reinforce within-firm disability-related pay inequality in England and Wales. However, both the disability pay gap and unexplained disability pay gap predominately exist within rather than between firms, supporting the introduction of employer disability pay gap reporting in the UK.
Subjects: 
disability pay gap
wage discrimination
linked employer-employee data
JEL: 
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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