@techreport{174bc9b16bfc495294e1b740b10fbac9,
title = "On Using Pareto Distributions for Measuring Top-Income Gender Disparities",
abstract = "Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting thattop incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceilingcoefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income dis-tribution and show how it relates to the top-income gender gap. If interpreting topincome gender differences as caused by a female-specific income tax, the gender gapand glass-ceiling coefficient measure its level and progressivity, respectively. UsingDanish data on earnings, we show that the top gender gap and the glass-ceilingcoefficient evolves differently across time, the life cycle, and educational groups.",
keywords = "Decomposition, Gender gap, Glass ceiling, Summary statistics, Decomposition, Gender gap, Glass ceiling, Summary statistics",
author = "Hansen, {Niels-Jakob Harbo} and Karl Harmenberg and Erik {\"O}berg and Sievertsen, {Hans Henrik}",
year = "2019",
language = "English",
series = "Working Paper / Department of Economics. Copenhagen Business School",
publisher = "Copenhagen Business School [wp]",
number = "9-2019",
address = "Denmark",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "Copenhagen Business School [wp]",
}