abstract: 'We assess the impact that full gender equality in the labour market

  would have on earnings inequality between households, and then decompose

  that impact by looking separately at the roles played by gender gaps in

  employment, hours, and pay. We do this by applying a reweighting method

  to LIS data for 22 OECD countries, across North America, Europe, and

  Australia. We find that full equality in earnings and employment between

  women and men would reduce household earnings inequality considerably,

  with the most substantial reductions coming from closing the gender gap

  in employment as opposed to closing the gaps in pay and hours worked. A

  10\% counterfactual decrease in the gender employment gap (relative to

  the country baseline) is associated with an average 0.6\% decline in the

  Gini for household earnings inequality. Reducing the gender employment

  gap is thus the pathway through which greater gender equality may most

  strongly mitigate overall earnings inequality among households: these

  two key goals for contemporary societies can be pursued simultaneously.'
affiliation: 'Azzollini, L (Corresponding Author), Univ Oxford, Inst New Econ Thinking,
  Dept Social Policy \& Intervent, Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UQ, England.

  Azzollini, Leo; Breen, Richard, Univ Oxford, Leverhulme Ctr Demog Sci, Dept Sociol,
  Oxford, England.

  Azzollini, Leo; Nolan, Brian, Inst New Econ Thinking, Dept Social Policy \& Intervent,
  Oxford, England.

  Azzollini, Leo; Breen, Richard; Nolan, Brian, Univ Oxford, Nuffield Coll, Oxford,
  England.

  Azzollini, Leo, Univ Oxford, Inst New Econ Thinking, Dept Social Policy \& Intervent,
  Manor Rd, Oxford OX1 3UQ, England.'
article-number: '100823'
author: Azzollini, Leo and Breen, Richard and Nolan, Brian
author-email: leo.azzollini@spi.ox.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Azzollini
  given: Leo
- family: Breen
  given: Richard
- family: Nolan
  given: Brian
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100823
earlyaccessdate: MAY 2023
eissn: 1878-5654
files: []
issn: 0276-5624
journal: RESEARCH IN SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND MOBILITY
keywords: 'Earnings inequality; Gender equality; Labour market; Reweighting;

  Counterfactuals'
keywords-plus: 'INCOME INEQUALITY; FORCE PARTICIPATION; FAMILY-STRUCTURE; WIVES

  EARNINGS; UNITED-KINGDOM; EMPLOYMENT; PAY; CHILDREN; IMPACT; STATES'
language: English
month: AUG
number-of-cited-references: '65'
orcid-numbers: Azzollini, Leo/0000-0002-7967-0052
papis_id: bc2ae057d9283bcedf5aa08e196af45c
ref: Azzollini2023genderequality
times-cited: '0'
title: 'From gender equality to household earnings equality: The role of women''s
  labour market outcomes across OECD countries'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:001011313200001
usage-count-last-180-days: '8'
usage-count-since-2013: '8'
volume: '86'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2023'