abstract: 'Wage is not the only thing people care about when assessing the quality

  of their jobs. Non-wage job dimensions, such as autonomy at work and

  work-life balance, are important as well. Nevertheless, there is vast

  literature comparing groups of employed people that focuses on the

  inter-group wage gaps only. We go beyond the wage gap by proposing a

  framework for analysing inter-group gaps in multidimensional job

  quality. Job quality is measured by the so-called equivalent wage, a

  measure combining wage and multiple non-wage job dimensions in

  accordance with preferences over jobs as combinations of job dimensions.

  We derive a decomposition of the inter-group equivalent wage gap into

  three components: (1) the standard wage gap, (2) the gap in non-wage

  dimensions, and (3) inter-group preference heterogeneity. In an

  illustrative empirical application, we focus on the gender gap for

  recent university graduates using survey data from 19 countries. Men''s

  equivalent wages are substantially higher than women''s, and the

  equivalent wage gaps are significantly larger than the wage gaps. This

  is because the non-wage job dimensions are on average to men''s

  advantage, and the preference heterogeneity is such that men care about

  the non-wage dimensions less than women do, and thus suffer less from

  having the non-wage dimensions at levels below the perfect level. This

  type of decompositions broadens information about labour market

  inequalities available to policy makers, but it is up to them to decide

  which of the three components of the equivalent wage gap are normatively

  relevant for them and whether they should aim to eliminate them.'
affiliation: 'Rubil, I (Corresponding Author), Inst Econ, Trg JF Kennedyja 7, Zagreb
  10000, Croatia.

  Ledic, Marko, Univ Zagreb, Fac Econ \& Business, Trg JF Kennedyja 6, Zagreb 10000,
  Croatia.

  Rubil, Ivica, Inst Econ, Trg JF Kennedyja 7, Zagreb 10000, Croatia.'
author: Ledic, Marko and Rubil, Ivica
author-email: irubil@eizg.hr
author_list:
- family: Ledic
  given: Marko
- family: Rubil
  given: Ivica
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11205-021-02612-y
earlyaccessdate: JAN 2021
eissn: 1573-0921
files: []
issn: 0303-8300
journal: SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH
keywords: 'Wage gap; Equivalent wage gap; Job quality; Multi-dimensional;

  Decomposition; Gender gap'
keywords-plus: 'EFFORT-REWARD IMBALANCE; CORONARY-HEART-DISEASE; EQUIVALENT INCOMES;

  EQUALITY; SATISFACTION; OPPORTUNITY; METAANALYSIS; HAPPINESS; MODEL; PAY'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '107'
orcid-numbers: Rubil, Ivica/0000-0002-9111-7313
pages: 523-561
papis_id: 730853f1d89761dda9cb8db07600fcd4
ref: Ledic2021wagegap
times-cited: '2'
title: 'Beyond Wage Gap, Towards Job Quality Gap: The Role of Inter-Group Differences
  in Wages, Non-Wage Job Dimensions, and Preferences'
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000610469500001
usage-count-last-180-days: '5'
usage-count-since-2013: '26'
volume: '155'
web-of-science-categories: Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary; Sociology
year: '2021'