TY - JOUR
T1 - Women’s earnings between migration status and glass ceilings
T2 - a double penalty?
AU - Alfarhan, Usamah F.
AU - Al-Busaidi, Samir
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/5/3
Y1 - 2020/5/3
N2 - We investigate the gender earnings gap in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This paper implements conditional counterfactual decomposition analysis to assess the double impact of migration status and gender on skilled womens' relative earnings along earnings' distributions. We show that the earnings' gap declines by 31% between the higher and lower ends of earnings distributions. This decline is in part due to a falling effect of migration, which accounts for 100% of the total gap at the lower end of earnings, and for 50% at the higher end. Increasing effects of glass ceilings account for about 16% of the total gap around the median, and over 37% at the higher end of earnings distributions. Labour market policies that promote equal pay for equal work are recommended.
AB - We investigate the gender earnings gap in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), which comprises Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. This paper implements conditional counterfactual decomposition analysis to assess the double impact of migration status and gender on skilled womens' relative earnings along earnings' distributions. We show that the earnings' gap declines by 31% between the higher and lower ends of earnings distributions. This decline is in part due to a falling effect of migration, which accounts for 100% of the total gap at the lower end of earnings, and for 50% at the higher end. Increasing effects of glass ceilings account for about 16% of the total gap around the median, and over 37% at the higher end of earnings distributions. Labour market policies that promote equal pay for equal work are recommended.
KW - Distribution
KW - counterfactual
KW - decomposition
KW - earnings gaps
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U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2020.1728222
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2020.1728222
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85079723065
SN - 1350-4851
VL - 27
SP - 629
EP - 632
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
IS - 8
ER -