Multiple Glass Ceilings

Giovanni Russo () and Wolter Hassink ()
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Giovanni Russo: European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop)
Wolter Hassink: Utrecht University

No 5828, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Both vertical (between job levels) and horizontal (within job levels) mobility can be sources of wage growth. We find that the glass ceiling operates at both margins. The unexplained part of the wage gap grows across job levels (glass ceiling at the vertical margin) and across the deciles of the intra-job-level wage distribution (glass ceiling at the horizontal margin). This implies that women face many glass ceilings, one for each job level above the second, and that the glass ceiling is a pervasive phenomenon. In the Netherlands it affects about 88% of jobs, and 81% of Dutch women in employment work in job levels where a glass ceiling is present.

Keywords: glass ceiling; wage gap; gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J22 J24 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2011-06
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Published - published in: Industrial Relations, 2012, 51 (4), 892–915

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