Why does the Gender Pay Gap vary across Wales?

Posted on 5 March 2021 by Suzanna Nesom

In our latest post, doctoral student Suzanna Nesom discusses findings from her literature review on the Gender Pay Gap in Wales. The Gender Pay Gap is the difference in earnings between women and men, determined by calculating women’s average pay – usually measured hourly to adjust for hours worked – as a percentage of men’s.
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The Gender Pay Gap: What can we learn from Northern Ireland?

Posted on 20 July 2020 by Melanie Jones

In our latest post, Professor Melanie Jones and Dr Ezgi Kaya reflect on their new IZA discussion paper on the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland. Headline figures from the UK Office for National Statistics show that the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland is far narrower than in the rest of the UK. Our
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Five things we learned about the Gender Pay Gap in the UK Public Sector

Posted on 27 November 2019 by Melanie Jones

In our latest post, Professor Melanie Jones and Dr Ezgi Kaya share some findings from their project for the Office of Manpower Economics (OME) which examined the gender pay gap in the UK public sector. 1. Inequality is similar across the public and private sectors. Despite the gender pay gap remaining slightly narrower in the
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