From the glass door to the glass ceiling: An analysis of the gender wage gap by age groups

Elena Dalla Chiara, Eleonora Matteazzi and Ilaria Petrarca
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Elena Dalla Chiara: University of Verona, Italy

No 347, Working Papers from ECINEQ, Society for the Study of Economic Inequality

Abstract: Using 2009 EU-SILC data for France, Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, we decompose the gender wage gap for prime age workers. We adopt an age group approach to identify when and how the glass door and the glass ceiling effects arise and their persistency over time. The empirical results verify that the raw gender wage gap increases with age. In all considered countries, the glass ceiling effect is completely realized by the age of 30 and increases over time. French, Italian and British women have also to cope with the glass door as they enter the labor market.

Keywords: Gender wage gap; labor force participation; wage decomposition; glass ceiling; glass door. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C49 J21 J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 49 pages
Date: 2014-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-eur, nep-hme, nep-lab and nep-lma
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