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Gender pay and productivity in UK universities: Evidence from research-intensive Business Schools

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  • Harris, Richard
  • Maté-Sánchez-Val, Mariluz

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Women academics earn less than men, even after controlling for a range of productivity-related covariates. However, the latter usually do not include direct measures of research productivity. This paper uses data from the Higher Education Statistical Authority (HESA) confirming the existence of unconditional and conditional gender wage gaps. Data separately collected for the recent 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) shows men are more research productive but that after controlling for academic grade there is no gender productivity gap. For both wage and productivity gaps, there are barriers for women to achieve the research productivity needed to be promoted, and reducing these would go a long way to eliminating such gaps.

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  • Harris, Richard & Maté-Sánchez-Val, Mariluz, 2022. "Gender pay and productivity in UK universities: Evidence from research-intensive Business Schools," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 218(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:218:y:2022:i:c:s0165176522002579
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110738
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    Keywords

    Gender; Wage-gaps; Research productivity; Universities; Business Schools;
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    JEL classification:

    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • D2 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations
    • J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination

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