Gender Differences in Wage Growth and Promotion in Luxembourg

Abstract

There is no dispute about the fact that women tend to fare worse than men in the labour market; evidence of a wage gap in pay is abundant. This chapter attempts to complement this static picture with an examination of gender differences in promotion and wage growth. These issues relate to the ongoing debate about the existence (or otherwise) of a ‘glass ceiling’ above women in the labour market — an invisible barrier that inhibits promotion opportunities for women (but not men) and prevents women from reaching top-level (high-wage) positions in firms. Do such ‘glass ceilings’ exist and exacerbate the male—female wage differential? Or, on the contrary, are women able to take advantage of promotions and other opportunities for wage growth to catch up partially to male wage rates?KeywordsWage LevelWage DistributionWage GrowthGlass CeilingPromotion OpportunityThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.