The gender wage gap in Australia - The path of future convergence

Michael Kidd; M. Shannon

doi:10.1111/1475-4932.00026

The gender wage gap in Australia - The path of future convergence

Michael Kidd, M. Shannon

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The paper attempts to project the future trend of the gender wage gap in Australia up to 2031. The empirical analysis utilises the Income Distribution Survey (1996) together with Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) demographic projections. The methodology combines the ABS projections with assumptions relating to the evolution of educational attainment in order to project the future distribution of human capital skills and consequently the future size of the gender wage gap. The analysis suggests that female relative pay will continue to rise up to 2031. However, gender wage convergence will be relatively slow, with a substantial gap remaining in 2031.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	161-174
Number of pages	13
Journal	The Economic Record
Volume	78
Issue number	241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.00026
Publication status	Published - 2002

Keywords

LABOR-MARKET
1980S
DISCRIMINATION

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