Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36794 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4848
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the gender gap in compensation for CEOs, Vice-Directors, and potential top executives in the 2000 largest Danish private companies based on a panel data set of employer-employees data covering the period 1996-2005. During the period, the overall gender gap in compensation for top executives and potential top executives decreased from 35 percent to 31 percent. However, contrary to many other studies, we do not find that the gender gap for Danish top executives disappears when controlling for observed individual and firm characteristics and unobserved individual heterogeneity. For CEOs, the raw compensation gap is 28 percent during the period while the estimated compensation gap after controlling for observed and unobserved characteristics increases to 30 percent. For executives below the CEO level, the estimated compensation gap is lower, ranging from 15 to 20 percent. Thus, we find evidence of both glass ceilings and sticky floors in Danish private firms.
Subjects: 
CEO compensation
gender gap
glass ceiling
JEL: 
J33
M52
J16
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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