Women in the pipeline : a dynamic decomposition of firm pay gaps / Jishnu Das, Clément Joubert
Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: World Bank E-Library Archive | Policy research working paper ; 9295Publisher: [Washington, DC, USA] : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Research Group, June 2020Description: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 50 Seiten) : IllustrationenSubject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: Women in the Pipeline: A Dynamic Decomposition of Firm Pay Gaps. Druck-Ausgabe Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2020DOI: DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-9295Online resources: Summary: 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 timePPN: PPN: 1726664767Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-1-WBA | ZDB-110-WBLNo physical items for this record