Andrew Penner

About

Andrew Penner is a sociologist who studies inequality in education and the labor market. His work focuses on understanding the intended and unintended consequences of social policy.

Research topics

• Labour economics
• Economics
• Demographic economics
• Mathematics
• Mathematical analysis

Selected publications

• Rising between-workplace inequalities in high-income countries

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2020 · 115 citations

  It is well documented that earnings inequalities have risen in many high-income countries. Less clear are the linkages between rising income inequality and workplace dynamics, how within- and between-workplace inequality varies across countries, and to what extent these inequalities are moderated by national labor market institutions. In order to describe changes in the initial between- and within-firm market income distribution we analyze administrative records for 2,000,000,000+ job years nest…

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• Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries

  Nature Human Behaviour · 2022 · 66 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  Extant research on the gender pay gap suggests that men and women who do the same work for the same employer receive similar pay, so that processes sorting people into jobs are thought to account for the vast majority of the pay gap. Data that can identify women and men who do the same work for the same employer are rare, and research informing this crucial aspect of gender differences in pay is several decades old and from a limited number of countries. Here, using recent linked employer-employ…

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• Reining in Punitive Discipline: Recent Trends in Exclusionary School Discipline Disparities

  Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World · 2022-01-01 · 31 citations

  articleOpen accessSenior author

  Concerns around disparities in suspensions and expulsions from schools in the United States have resulted in a concerted effort to reduce the use of exclusionary school discipline. In this article, the authors describe trends in the use of exclusionary discipline in Indiana and Oregon, two U.S. states with different school discipline policy climates. The findings point to a substantial decline in the use of suspensions and other forms of exclusionary discipline in both states. The authors furthe…

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• Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs

  Nature · 2025-07-16 · 12 citations

  articleOpen access

  Immigrants to high-income countries often face considerable and persistent difficulties in the labour market1–6, whereas their native-born children typically experience economic progress6–9. However, little is known about the extent to which these immigrant–native earnings differences stem from unequal pay when doing the same work for the same employer versus labour market processes that sort immigrants into lower-paid jobs. Here, using data from nine European and North American countries, we sh…

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• The Great Separation: Top Earner Segregation at Work in Advanced Capitalist Economies

  American Journal of Sociology · 2024-06-05 · 12 citations

  articleOpen access

  Earnings segregation at work is an understudied topic in social science, despite the workplace being an everyday nexus for social mixing, cohesion, contact, claims making, and resource exchange. It is all the more urgent to study as workplaces, in the last decades, have undergone profound reorganizations that could affect the magnitude and evolution of earnings segregation. Analyzing linked employer-employee panel administrative databases, the authors estimate the evolving isolation of higher ea…

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Recent grants

• Why Are Boys Faltering in School? International and Longitudinal Perspectives

  NIH · $639k · 2012–2017

Frequent coauthors

• Trond Petersen

  124 shared

• Mirna Safi

  Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

  111 shared

• Are Skeie Hermansen

  Stockholm University

  108 shared

• Lasse Folke Henriksen

  Copenhagen Business School

  106 shared

• Zoltán Lippényi

  106 shared

• Feng Hou

  106 shared

• Martin Hällsten

  Swedish Institute

  104 shared

• Marta M. Elvira

  Universidad de Navarra

  103 shared

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