The existence of a gender pay gap has been well established in the literature but remained unexplored within unions. Using 2000–2019 LM-2 data, our study quantifies among union officers and staff United States national local We find evidence that women face wage penalty, with female unions both being paid significantly less than their male counterparts.

Abstract The aim of this paper is to present an original approach estimate the gender pay gap (GPG). We propose a model-based decomposition, similar most popular approaches, where first component measures differences in group characteristics and second unexplained effect; latter being real gap. novel incorporates model selection bias correction. problem small area context considered paper, alth...

The vast majority of existing studies that estimate the average unexplained gender pay gap use unnecessarily restrictive linear versions Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. Using a notably rich and large data set 1.7 million employees in Switzerland, we investigate how methodological improvements made possible by such big affect estimates gap. We study sensitivity with regard to i) availability obser...