Abstract
Extending the work of Atkinson et al. (2018), we decompose top-earnings gender disparities into a glass-ceiling coefficient and a top-earnings gender gap. The decomposition uses that both male and female top earnings are Pareto distributed. If interpreting top-earnings gender disparities as caused by a female-specific earnings tax, the top-earnings gender gap and glass-ceiling coefficient measure the tax level and tax progressivity, respectively. Using Danish data on earnings, we show that the top-earnings gender gap and the glass-ceiling coefficient evolve differently across time, the life cycle, and educational groups. In particular, while the topearnings gender gap has been decreasing in Denmark over the period 1980-2013, the glass-ceiling coefficient has been remarkably stable.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 347-362 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of Economic Inequality |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 11 Mar 2021 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:We are very grateful for comments from the editor, anonymous referees, Arizo Karimi, Oskar Nordstr?m Skans and seminar participants at CBS, IIES, and UC Santa Barbara. All errors are our own. The views herein are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the IMF, its Executive Board, or its management. Funding from Lars Hierta?s Foundation and Handelsbanken?s Research Foundations is gratefully acknowledged.
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Research Groups and Themes
- ECON CEPS Welfare
- ECON Macroeconomics
Keywords
- ECON Applied Economics
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