Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms
Abstract
We investigate whether immigrant and minority workers’ poor access to high-wage jobs – that is, glass ceilings – is attributable to poor access to jobs in high-wage firms, a phenomenon we call glass doors. Our analysis uses linked employer-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We find that glass ceilings exist for some immigrant groups, and that they are driven in large measure by glass doors. For some immigrant groups, the sorting of these workers across firms accounts for as much as half of the economy-wide wage disparity they face.Download Info
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Paper provided by Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in its series IZA Discussion Papers with number 4626.Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: Dec 2009
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Publication status: published in: Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, 2010, 28(1), 181-189
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Keywords: quantile regression; visible minorities; immigration; wage differentials; glass ceilings; linked employer-employee data;Other versions of this item:
- Pendakur, Krishna & Woodcock, Simon, 2010. "Glass Ceilings or Glass Doors? Wage Disparity Within and Between Firms," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, American Statistical Association, vol. 28(1), pages 181-189.
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- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing
- J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
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- NEP-ALL-2010-01-10 (All new papers)
- NEP-LAB-2010-01-10 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-MIG-2010-01-10 (Economics of Human Migration)
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