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European Sociological Review 13:199-213 1997
© 1997 Oxford University Press

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Within-Job Wage Discrimination and the Gender Wage Gap: The Case of Norway

Trond Petersen, Vemund Snartland, Lars-Erik Becken and Karen Modesta Olsen

Trond Petersen, Walter A. Haas School of Business (or Department of Sociology, 410 Barrows Hall), University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720, USA Department of Sociology, University of Oslo PO Box 1096, 0317 Oslo, Norway
Vemund Snartland,NOVA, Munthesgt. 29, 0260 Oslo, Norway
Lars-Erik Becken,Oslo Kommunerevisjon, Økernveien 11,0640 Oslo, Norway
Karen Modesta Olsen, Institute for Social Research, Munthesgt. 31, 0260 Oslo, Norway

It has been established for the USA that men and women working in the same occupation for the same employer receive more or less the same pay. So-called within-job wage discrimination is hence not a driving force for the gender wage gap. Below we report the first comparative arid the second comprehensive empirical study of wage differences between men and women in the same specific occupation within the same establishment for a European economy: Norway. We report three striking findings. The first is that wage differences are relatively small when one compares men and women who work in the same occupation and establishment: women on average earn 2-6 per cent less per hour than men. The second finding is that it is occupational segregation which really accounts for the existing wage differences and that establishment segregation accounts for less. The third finding is that the within-occupation gaps are relatively small, at less than 10 per cent. We conducted these analyses for two years, 1984 and 1990.

Manuscript received: October 1, 1995.


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