A Sticky Floors Model of Promotion, Pay and Gender

Alison Booth, Marco Francesconi, Jeff Frank

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    Abstract

    According to raw data from the British Household Panel Survey, full-time women are more likely than men to be promoted. Controlling for observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find that women are promoted at roughly the same rate as men, but may receive smaller wage increases consequent upon promotion. To help explain these phenomena, we construct a new "sticky floors" model of pay and promotion. In our model, women are just as likely as men to be promoted but find themselves stuck at the bottom of the wage scale for the new grade.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)295-322
    JournalEuropean Economic Review
    Volume47
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2003

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