WP 833/2022 - The Gender Pay Gap: Pay for Performance and Sorting across Employers

The Gender Pay Gap: Pay for Performance and Sorting...

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ECGI New Working Paper Alert
ECGI Finance Series 833/2022
Tuesday 5 July 2022

The Gender Pay Gap:
Pay for Performance and Sorting across Employers

Daniel Bradley, University of South Florida
April M. Knill, Florida State University
Michelle Lowry, Drexel University and ECGI
Jared Williams, University of South Florida

This paper was presented at the conference:
“2022 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium (GCGC)”

Keywords:
Gender Gap • Gender Inequality • Compensation • Faculty • Research Productivity • Career Paths

We document a gender pay gap among business professors at Florida public universities. Part of this gap is driven by the fact that females are disproportionately likely to work at schools with low pay, controlling for faculty productivity. However, this sorting effect does not completely explain our findings: Using strict fixed effects to control for discipline, employer, rank, productivity, and experience, we find that women are paid approximately 3.5% less than men. Women’s pay is less sensitive to their publication performance, and the pay gap is economically largest among full professors.

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This paper was presented at the conference
“2022 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium” by:

Professor Michelle Lowry ECGI Profile
Professor of Finance
Drexel University
Email: michelle.lowry@drexel.edu

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