Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps

This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method accounts for pipeline effects, nonstationary environments, and dynamic interactions between pay gap components. This paper assembles a n...

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Main Authors:	Das, Jishnu, Joubert, Clement
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2020
Subjects:	GENDER WAGE GAP DYNAMIC DECOMPOSITION PIPELINE EFFECT PAY GAP FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/922611592934616383/Women-in-the-Pipeline-A-Dynamic-Decomposition-of-Firm-Pay-Gaps http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33991

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spelling	okr-10986-339912022-09-20T00:12:50Z Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps Das, Jishnu Joubert, Clement GENDER WAGE GAP DYNAMIC DECOMPOSITION PIPELINE EFFECT PAY GAP FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method accounts for pipeline effects, nonstationary environments, and dynamic interactions between pay gap components. This paper assembles a new data set covering all employees at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 and shows that historical differences in the positions for which men and women were hired account for 77 percent of today's average salary difference, dwarfing the roles of entry salaries, salary growth, or retention. Forward simulations show that 20 percent of the total gap can be assigned to pipeline effects that would resolve mechanically with time. 2020-06-25T15:37:30Z 2020-06-25T15:37:30Z 2020-06 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/922611592934616383/Women-in-the-Pipeline-A-Dynamic-Decomposition-of-Firm-Pay-Gaps http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33991 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9295 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
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topic	GENDER WAGE GAP DYNAMIC DECOMPOSITION PIPELINE EFFECT PAY GAP FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION LABOR MARKET
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relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 9295
description	This paper proposes a new decomposition method to understand how gender pay gaps arise within firms. The method accounts for pipeline effects, nonstationary environments, and dynamic interactions between pay gap components. This paper assembles a new data set covering all employees at the World Bank Group between 1987 and 2015 and shows that historical differences in the positions for which men and women were hired account for 77 percent of today's average salary difference, dwarfing the roles of entry salaries, salary growth, or retention. Forward simulations show that 20 percent of the total gap can be assigned to pipeline effects that would resolve mechanically with time.
format	Working Paper
author	Das, Jishnu Joubert, Clement
author_facet	Das, Jishnu Joubert, Clement
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title	Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps
title_short	Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps
title_full	Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps
title_fullStr	Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps
title_full_unstemmed	Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps
title_sort	women in the pipeline : a dynamic decomposition of firm pay gaps
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2020
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/922611592934616383/Women-in-the-Pipeline-A-Dynamic-Decomposition-of-Firm-Pay-Gaps http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33991
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Women in the Pipeline : A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps

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