Is there a glass ceiling in Morocco? : evidence from matched worker-firm data
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2009
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Oxford University Press
Abstract
Several empirical studies have found larger gender pay gaps at the upper
tail of the wage distribution in developed countries, the so-called glass
ceiling effect. In this paper, we investigate the relevance of the glass
ceiling hypothesis in Morocco using a matched worker–firm data set of
more than 8,000 employees and 850 employers working in the manufacturing
sector. We estimate linear and quantile earnings regressions with
controls for unobserved firm heterogeneity and perform a quantile
decomposition. We also focus on the within-firm gender earnings gap
using information on the firms’ characteristics. Our results show that
the gender earnings gap is higher at the top of the distribution than at
the bottom. Furthermore, the gender gap widens in the upper tail of the
earnings distribution when controlling for firm fixed effects.
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GENDER DISCRIMINATION, WAGE DETERMINATION, INCOME DISTRIBUTION, GLASS CEILING, MOROCCO
Citation
Nordman, C.J., & Wolff, F.C. (2009). Is There a Glass Ceiling in Morocco? Evidence from Matched Worker-Firm Data. Journal of African Economies, 18(4), 592-633. doi:10.1093/jae/ejn029