Gender Pay Gap Across the Income Distribution: Analysis for the EU

In this paper, personal income distributions for men and women in the European Union countries were compared. The counterfactual decomposition method allowed us to study differences of income distributions at various quantile levels. To decompose these differences the Recentered Influence Function Regression approach was used. Positivity of the gendered income gap in each country was found, but there exists an important diversity in the size and composition of the income gap across members of the European Union. The results obtained for 28 countries allowed us to group them into six clusters. For the analysis, data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) were used.