Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36193 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4331
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper investigates gender differences between the log wage distributions of full-time British employees in the public and private sectors. After allowing for positive selection into full-time employment by women, we find significant and substantial gender earnings gaps, and evidence of glass ceilings, in both sectors. The earnings gaps amongst the higher income earners are found to be related to there being a scarcity of senior women in high skilled, white-collar occupations, especially in the public sector.
Subjects: 
Gender
earnings
wage-gap
selection
distribution
JEL: 
J3
J7
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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