Generalized Glass Ceilings in the United States – A Stochastic Metafrontier Approach

Khalid Maman Waziri ()
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Khalid Maman Waziri: Aix-Marseille Univ. (Aix-Marseille School of Economics), CNRS, EHESS and Centrale Marseille

No 1727, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: This paper highlights the limitations inherent to the stochastic earnings frontier methodology to analyzing wage discrimination and introduces the use of the metafrontier approach as an important improvement. Using US data from the Current Population Survey, we find that white women’s and black men’s maximum attainable hourly earnings represent respectively 80% and 76% of those of white men on average. Furthermore, the metafrontier approach shows that male-female and white-black differences in maximum attainable earnings are observed at all levels of human capital. This innovative methodology permits the identification of a “generalized” glass ceilings against females and blacks in the US.

Keywords: wage differentials; discrimination; glass ceiling; stochastic frontier; stochastic metafrontier approach; sample selection correction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C13 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56 pages
Date: 2017-08
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