@techreport{Gang2003Does,
abstract = {We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United
States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to
test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass
ceiling highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor
market up to a certain point, after which there is an effective limit on advancement for
women. We examine the glass ceiling hypothesis by looking at the income dynamics ?
the movement of women and men through the distribution of income over time. We find
that there is considerable evidence in favor of a glass ceiling both in Germany and the
United States with men having approximately a 30% premium in their upward income
mobility compared to women in the upper income classes. We also find significant, but
smaller, differences at middle and low income levels for both countries.},
author = {Ira N. Gang and John S. Landon-Lane and Myeong-Su Yun},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {D3; D63; J7; 330; glass ceiling; mobility; Markov chain; income distribution dynamics; gender discrimination; Frauenarbeitslohn; Erwerbsverlauf; Lohndifferenzierung; Soziale Mobilit\"{a}t; Geschlecht; Sch\"{a}tzung; Vereinigte Staaten; Deutschland},
language = {eng},
number = {2003,01},
title = {Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? : A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility},
type = {Working papers / Rutgers University, Department of Economics},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/23159},
year = {2003}
}
