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This presentation, "The gender wage gap and the career patterns of men and women", was delivered at the University of Greenwich in January 2016.
Authors

CPP Co-Director
Richard is Co-Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and Senior Research Fellow at IFS.

Research Fellow Yale University
Costas is a Research Fellow of the IFS and a Professor of Economics at Yale University and a Visiting Professor at University College London.

Deputy Research Director
Monica is a Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, with an interest in Labour, Family and Public Economics.

Presentation details
- DOI
- 10.1920/ps.ifs.2024.0537
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
Blundell, R et al. (2016). 'The gender wage gap and the career patterns of men and women' [Presentation]. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/gender-wage-gap-and-career-patterns-men-and-women (accessed: 15 July 2025).
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