Summary

This article explores the different factors which can impact on men and women’s pay and how they can help us to understand the gender pay gap. The paper then goes on to decompose the gender pay gap into it’s explained and unexplained elements.

Publications

• Understanding the gender pay gap in the UK

  This analysis builds on the raw gender pay gap, using regressions techniques to provide more insight into the factors that affect men's and women's pay.

Data

• Understanding the gender pay gap, UK, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings: regression dataset

  Results of statistical modelling exploring linear regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition.

• Understanding the gender pay gap, UK, Annual Survey of Hours and Earning: dataset

  Annual Survey for Hours and Earnings data to support the 'Understanding the gender pay gap' article.

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