Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/230440 
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Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2019/7
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
In this paper, we explore the role of firm segregation on the gender wage gap. Using linked employee-employer data for Turkey, we investigate whether female segregation into low-paying firms and into low-paying jobs within a firm influence the gender wage gap across the wage distribution. We find that there is a 'glass ceiling' effect in the Turkish labour market, but this effect is more apparent within a firm than between firms. We also find a 'sticky floor' effect, but only among workers employed at the same firm. Our results imply that the allocation of women into low-paying jobs within each firm accounts for the existence of these effects more than the segregation of women into low-paying firms.
Subjects: 
gender wage gap
segregation
within- and between-firms
glass ceiling
sticky floor
JEL: 
C21
J31
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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