tailieunhanh - Investigating the gender wage gap in Vietnam by quantile regression: Sticky floor or glass ceiling

Inequality between men and women in the labor market is one of the issues that is of great interest in labor economics. The sticky floor effect occurs when the gender wage gap widens at the lower tail of the wage distribution. | Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies Volumn 25, Special Issue 01 (2018), 04-23 Journal of Asian Business and Economic Studies Investigating the gender wage gap in Vietnam by quantile regression: Sticky floor or glass ceiling TRAN THI TUAN ANHa a University of Economics HCMC ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Received 19 July 2017 Inequality between men and women in the labor market is one of the issues that is of great interest in labor economics. The sticky floor effect occurs when the gender wage gap widens at the lower tail of the wage distribution. The glass ceiling effect in wage exists if the gender wage gap at the top of the wage distribution is wider than other positions. This study uses the dataset of VHLSS2014 and adopts quantile regression to investigate the existence of glass ceiling and sticky floor in the Vietnam’s labor market. The overall results obtained of the entire sample show that there is sticky floor effect but no glass ceiling in the Vietnam’s labor market. However, the results are different when it comes to each labor group. In terms of urban and rural areas, the sticky floor exists, but the glass ceiling does not in both areas. In terms of state and private sectors, while the glass ceiling exists in state sector, the stick floor is only present in the private sector. Revised 15 Nov. 2017 Accepted 1 Jan. 2018 Available online 12 January 2018 JEL classifications: E24; J16; O18 KEYWORDS Gender wage gap Glass ceiling Sticky floor Quantile regression Mincer-type wage equation Gender discrimination Tran Thi Tuan Anh, JABES Vol. 25(Special 01), Feb. 2018, 04-23 5 1. Introduction Inequality between men and women in the labor market is one of the issues that are of great interest in labor economics. Many empirical studies have shown that wages of males are higher than for female workers. This happens in most countries around the world. Most of these studies focus on the average gender wage gap. However, in modern .