The seminar titled 'Understanding the Gender Gap in Northern Ireland: Drivers and Protective factors' was presented by Dr. Lisa Wilson, Senior economist, NERI. It took place on Thursday 23 February 2023 at 15.30.
The details are as follows:
Title: 'Understanding the Gender Gap in Northern Ireland: Drivers and Protective factors'
Speaker: Dr . Lisa Wilson, NERI senior economist
Date: Thursday 23 February 2023
Abstract & details of seminar:
The gender pay gap is an issue of continuing concern and debate within policy and academic circles. There is a limited number of empirical studies however which have been concerned with understanding the driving factors to the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland.
In this seminar Dr Lisa Wilson presented the findings of a paper titled ‘How unequal? The adjusted gender pay gap in Northern Ireland’. In doing so, Dr. Wilson will examined and explained the nature of the gender pay gap in Northern Ireland and the extent to which different personal/family and job-related characteristics both drive and reduce differences in the earnings of males and females.
Subsequently, a discussion was open to the floor where the chairperson, Jacquie White, General Secretary, UTU presented questions to Dr. Wilson. See presentation attached below and link to the video.
Biography of presenter:
Dr. Lisa Wilson is a Senior Economist at the Nevin Economic Research Institute and is based in the Belfast office. Her main research interests lie in the areas of labour markets, income distribution, poverty, public expenditure, living standards and well-being.
Since taking up her position in the NERI, Lisa has been among other things carrying out work concerned with job quality and its economic and social importance, the future of work, the gendered nature of employment, and housing and its impact for living standards in Northern Ireland.
Lisa is a native of Donegal, and a graduate of Ulster University and Queens University, Belfast. Lisa completed her PhD in Queen’s University, Belfast focusing on income inequality and well-being.