Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/208600 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Working paper No. 9-2019
Publisher: 
Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Department of Economics, Frederiksberg
Abstract: 
Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting that top incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceiling coefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income distribution and show how it relates to the top-income gender gap. If interpreting top income gender differences as caused by a female-specific income tax, the gender gap and glass ceiling coefficient measure its level and progressivity, respectively. Using Danish data on earnings, we show that the top gender gap and the glass-ceiling coefficient evolves across time, the life cycle, and educational groups.
Subjects: 
decomposition
gender gap
glass ceiling
summary statistics
JEL: 
C10
J31
J71
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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