TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Fortin, Nicole M.
AU  - Bell, Brian
AU  - Böhm, Michael Johannes
        TI  - Top Earnings Inequality and the Gender Pay Gap: Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom
        PY  - 2017/Jun/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10829
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10829
        AB  - This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well as reweighting techniques, to the analysis of the gender pay gap. 
The analysis is supplemented by classic O-B decompositions of hourly wages using data from the Canadian and U.K. Labour Force Surveys. The paper finds that recent increases in top earnings led to substantial "swimming upstream" effects, therefore accounting for differential progress in the gender pay gap across time periods and a growing share of the gap unexplained by traditional factors. 
        KW  - gender pay gap
KW  - earnings inequality
KW  - top incomes
        ER  -