Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35600 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3957
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Country-specific factors, such as the wage setting environment, are important determinants in explaining the relative size of the gender wage gap. This paper uses British and Canadian linked employer-employee data to investigate the importance of the workplace for the gender wage gap. Our main findings are that the unadjusted gender earnings gaps are similar between the two countries and that women, especially older women, are disproportionately represented in low-wage workplaces. Workplace effects, however, reduce the wage gap by 14.5% in Canada and increase the gap by 3.2% in Britain.
Subjects: 
Gender earnings gap
workplaces
Britain
Canada
JEL: 
J16
J0
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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