Gender Discrimination in the British Labour Market: A Reassessment

For the first time, data on women's employment histories is used to study the gap between women's and men's pay in Great Britain. The analysis shows that women's hourly pay would be about 20 percent higher in the absence of "discrimination, " and that measures of women's work experience that are imputed by backward-projection from a cross-section employment participation equation are highly correlated with actual experience and produce similar estimates of women's earnings functions and discrimination. Copyright 1991 by Royal Economic Society.