WITHIN-JOB WAGE DISCRIMINATION AND THE GENDER WAGE GAP - THE CASE OF NORWAY

It has been established for the USA that men and women working in the same occupation for the same employer receive more or less the same pa y. So-called within-job wage discrimination is hence not a driving for ce for the gender wage gap. Below we report the first comparative and the second comprehensive empirical study of wage differences between m en and women in the same specific occupation within the same establish ment for a European economy: Norway. We report three striking findings . The first is that wage differences are relatively small when one com pares men and women who work in the same occupation and establishment: women on average earn 2-6 per cent less per hour than men. The second finding is that it is occupational segregation which really accounts for the existing wage differences and that establishment segregation a ccounts for less. The third finding is that the within-occupation gaps are relatively small, at less than 10 per cent. We conducted these an alyses for two years, 1984 and 1990.