The role of differences in tasks and responsibilities, pay for work of equal value and firm wage-setting practices in the gender wage gap

Women still earn less than men and continue to perform the bulk of domestic activities. Several studies documented a negative individual wage–housework relation, suggesting that gender discrepancies in housework may explain the gender wage gap. Less attention has been paid to the role of the partner’s unpaid work and to the extent that intra-household inequalities relate to inequalities outside the house. The present study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. We exploit EU-SILC 2010 data for Germany and Italy and PSID 2009 data for the US. Results suggest the importance of accounting for a partner’s housework when evaluating the determinants of individual wages and the gender wage gap. Women seem not to profit from their partners’ housework; instead, women’s non-market work increases their partners’ earnings while decreasing their own earnings. This suggests the importance of reducing women’s involvement in domestic work in order to close gender wage equalities.

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Convergence in the gender wage gap in Australia over the 1980s: identifying the role of counteracting forces via the Juhn, Murphy and Pierce Decomposition

Applied Economics ◽

10.1080/00036840121991 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 33 (7) ◽

pp. 929-936 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michael P. Kidd ◽

Michael Shannon

Keyword(s):

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap

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Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set

Applied Economics ◽

10.1080/00036846.2019.1630707 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 113-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

M. Christl ◽

Monika Köppl–Turyna

Keyword(s):

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

Data Set

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Part-time employment, the gender wage gap and the role of wage-setting institutions: Evidence from 11 European countries

European Journal of Industrial Relations ◽

10.1177/0959680117738857 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 221-241 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Eleonora Matteazzi ◽

Ariane Pailhé ◽

Anne Solaz

Keyword(s):

Gender Gap ◽

Gender Wage Gap ◽

Wage Gap ◽

European Countries ◽

Full Time ◽

Wage Setting ◽

Wage Penalty ◽

Pay Gap ◽

Representation Of Women ◽

Part Time

We examine how far the over-representation of women in part-time jobs can explain the gender gap in hourly earnings, and also investigate how far wage-setting institutions are correlated with the overall gender wage gap and the female part-time wage gap. Using European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) 2009 data for 11 European countries, we implement a double decomposition of the gender wage gap: between men and women employed full-time and between full-time and part-time working women. This shows that the wage penalty of women employed part-time occurs mainly through the segregation of part-time jobs, but the full-time gender pay gap remains mostly unexplained. At the macro level, the gender wage gap tends to be higher in countries where part-time employment is more widespread. Some wage-setting institutions seem to reduce the female full-time/part-time pay gap and the gender gap among full-time workers.

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