The gender wage gap among medical specialists: a quantitative analysis of the hourly pay of publicly employed senior doctors in New Zealand.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the gender gap in hourly wages earned by medical specialists in their main jobs after controlling for age, number of hours worked and medical specialty.

Design

Observational using governmental administrative and survey data.

Setting

New Zealand public employed medical workforce.

Participants

3510 medical specialists who were employed for wages or a salary in a medical capacity by a New Zealand district health board (DHB) at the time of the March 2013 census, whose census responses on hours worked were complete and can be matched to tax records of earnings to construct hourly earnings.

Main outcome measures

Hourly earnings in the DHB job calculated from usual weekly hours worked reported in the census and wage or salary earnings pai

SUBMITTER: Sin I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8088256 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature