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| Title: | | Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? : A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility  |
| Authors: | | Gang, Ira N. Landon-Lane, John S. Yun, Myeong-Su |
| Issue Date: | | 2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Working papers / Rutgers University, Department of Economics 2003,01 |
| 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. |
| Subjects: | | glass ceiling mobility Markov chain income distribution dynamics gender discrimination |
| JEL: | | D3 D63 J7 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Working Papers, Department of Economics, Rutgers University
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