Sticky Floors and Occupational Segregation: Evidence from Pakistan

Ather Maqssod Ahmed and Asma Hyder
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Ather Maqssod Ahmed: NUST Business School, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad.
Asma Hyder: NUST Business School, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Islamabad.
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Asma Hyder Baloch

The Pakistan Development Review, 2008, vol. 47, issue 4, 837-849

Abstract: The paper uses the micro data from nationwide Pakistan Labour Force Survey 2005-06 to examine the hypothesis of glass ceilings and sticky floors, both in public and private sectors. The study explores the conditional gender wage distributions at different quantiles—a subject that so far has not attracted much attention in Pakistan. The results support that the gender wage differentials monotonically increase as one moves towards the bottom floor of the conditional wage distribution, i.e., the evidence validates the sticky floor hypothesis. The second sub-theme of the paper has been to investigate those factors that encourage occupational segregation in the labour market. For this purpose, an index of occupational segregation has been calculated for each of the occupational group. The value of Duncan’s D (Duncan Gender Occupational Dissimilarity Index) suggests that 40 percent employees (both men and women) have to change their jobs for an identical male and female labour force distributions. As a final result it has been established that the female participation has been very low, particularly in high paid occupational categories like mangers, legislators and senior officials.

Keywords: Food Insecurity; Economics Access; Poverty and Terms of Trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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