Salary and the Gender Salary Gap in the Academic Profession

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The academic profession is an occupation in which pay has fallen dramatically, resulting in the setting up of a Committee of Inquiry to examine both pay relativities and mechanisms for pay determination. This paper considers salary determination and the gender salary gap in the academic labour market drawing upon a particularly detailed data set of 900 academics from five traditional Scottish Universities. Results reveal an aggregate gender salary differential for academic staff of 15%. Most of this differential can, however, be explained by our model. Evidence suggests a limited opportunity for female academics to combine career and family, despite the flexibility of an academic job and emphasises the importance of mobility to the male career. Publication record, but not teaching ability, is found to be an important determinant of salary. The dominant contribution of rank to both the determination of female academic salaries and the gender salary gap suggests vastly differential opportunities for promotion faced by men and women.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 64

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Professional Labor Markets; Occupational Licensing
• Subject: Academic labour market ; salary ; gender differences ; Hochschullehrer ; Wissenschaftler ; Besoldung ; Geschlecht ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Familiensoziologie ; Großbritannien ; Schottland

Contributors, Location and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Ward, Melanie E.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 1999

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20899
• Last update: 20.09.2024, 8:22 AM CEST