This paper explores the nature of inter-industry wage differentials that are not explained by personal characteristics. We document the presence and persistence of a significant contribution of industry affiliation to wage dispersion in the UK. Competing theoretical explanations for this finding...

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...

In this article, we investigate the relevance of the glass ceiling hypothesis in France, according to which there exist larger gender wage gaps at the upper tail of the wage distribution. Using a matched worker-firm data set of about 1 30 000 employees and 14 000 employers, we estimate quantile...