What Firms Do: Gender Inequality in Linked Employer-Employee Data

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; Bocconi University; European Central Bank; Bank of Italy
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/723177
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 325-355
• 关键词: high wage workers; workplace heterogeneity; earnings inequality; pay gap; job; segregation; workforce

摘要

We study the extent to which employer heterogeneity affects gender gaps in earnings across the distribution, over time, and over the life cycle, accounting for cohort effects. Using a linked employer-employee dataset for Italy, we show that the gender gap in firm pay premia explains 34% of the mean gender pay gap, mainly due to between-firm components. Within-firm differences are more important at the top of the distribution and have become more relevant over time. Gender differences in mobility toward firms with higher pay premia and within-firm gender inequality partly explain the gender gap in firm pay premia.