A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Mohamed Jellal (jellal2009@yahoo.fr) and
Christophe Nordman
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Abstract:
In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage determination. We demonstrate that more qualified women are then offered much lower wages than men at the equilibrium. This result is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution.
Keywords: Gender Wage Gap; Glass ceiling; Productivity; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 J16 J24 J31 J71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-09-19
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