The disability pay gap: distinguishing between within-firm inequality and worker allocation across firms.
This article provides the first decomposition of the extent to which the UK disability pay gap is a consequence of within-firm inequality and the allocation of workers across firms. We use linked employer–employee data which matches high-quality information from employer payroll records to Census da...
| Published in: | Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 78; no. 3; pp. 850 - 872 |
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