Beyond Skills and Occupations: Unpacking Australia's Gender Wage Gap

The Occupations of Men and Women We begin our analysis by documenting the type of occupations men and women are employed in, and the extent of occupational sorting. [...] Can we explain why women and men are paid differently when working in the same occupation? The large majority of the gender wage gap in hourly wage is driven by gender differences in pay within occupations. [...] We then multiply the estimated coefficients for men and the personal characteristics xi of women in regression (3) to obtain the predicted share of women in each occupation if they entered into occupations the same way as men (referred to as P̂fj). [...] Any discussion of data limitations or weaknesses is in the context of using the data for statistical purposes and is not related to the ability of the data to support the ABR or ATO’s core operational requirements. [...] 13 Introduction The Occupations of Men and Women Decomposing the Hourly Gender Wage Gap Can we explain why women and men work in different occupations? Can we explain why women and men are paid differently when working in the same occupation? Conclusion Hourly Gender Wage Gap Decomposition A Model to Predict Men's and Women’s Occupations Additional Tables and Figures Disclaimer.