Firm Pay Policies and the Gender Earnings Gap
The Mediating Role of Marital and Family Status
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3221674 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jiang Li (0009-0003-8355-9941), Benoit Dostie (0000-0002-4133-2365), Gaëlle Simard-Duplain (Jiang Li was a Senior Research Analyst at Statistics Canada when the article was written. She is currently an Acting Senior Project Leader at Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada. Benoit Dostie is a Professor in the Department of Applied Economics at HEC Montreal. Gaëlle Simard-Duplain is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Centre for Innovative Data in Economics Research (CIDER) at the University of British Columbia), Gaëlle Simard‐duplain (0000-0002-0710-7949, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 160-188 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00197939221093562 |
| PMID | 36444238 |
| OpenAlex | W4225166658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 56 |
Using data from the Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamics Database between 2001 and 2015, the authors examine the impact of firms' hiring and pay-setting policies on the gender earnings gap in Canada. Consistent with the existing literature and following Card, Cardoso, and Kline (2016), findings show that firm-specific premiums explain nearly one-quarter of the 26.8% average earnings gap between female and male workers. On average, firms' hiring practices, due to differences in the relative proportion of women hired at high-wage firms (known as sorting), and pay-setting policies, due to differences in pay by gender within similar firms, each explain approximately one-half of this firm effect. The compositional difference between the two channels varies substantially over a worker's life cycle, by parental and marital status, and across provinces
Business · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Gender gap · Gender pay gap · Labour economics · Marital status · Population · Quarter (Canadian coin · Sociology · Wage · Accounting · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |