Sticky Floor Economics

Sticky floors can be described as the pattern that women are compared to men less likely to start to climb the job ladder.

Sticky floor economics. Building on the seminal study by booth and co authors in european economic review during the last decade economists have. Sometimes sticky floors can be caused by using the wrong cleaning chemical to remove soils from the floor. Morgan1 london school of economics university of amsterdam and university of pennsylvania. Expression used as a metaphor to point to a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps workers mainly women in the lower ranks of the job scale with low mobility and invisible barriers to career advancement.

If you have in fact used too much cleaning chemical on the floor the residue that is left behind is the cleaning chemical. Close to half of working women compared to one sixth of working men. Is a metaphor sometimes used to convey the difficulties that disadvantaged groups experience in moving from the bottom of the organizational hierarchy. Exploring the glass ceiling or sticky floor phenomenon applied economics 10 1080 00036846 2016 1150955 48 43 4098 4111 2016.

2 respectively exceed other reference points of the wage distribution by at least two percentage points see table 4 for further details. The global economic slowdown has led to widespread factory closures in the yangtze river and pearl river delta regions. 228 december 2015 glass ceilings and sticky floors. We expect the economic crisis and recent government initiatives to intensify the sticky floor effect in china.

Whereas the glass ceiling evokes the idea of a barrier preventing access to management grades the sticky floor focuses attention on the first stage of progression. Most of the workers who experience the sticky floor are pink collar workers such as secretaries nurses or waitresses. Sticky floor and glass ceiling effects can be defined to exist if the 10th percentile and the 90th percentile of the total line in fig. London school of economics and political science department of economic history working papers no.

Thereby this phenomenon is related to gender differentials at the bottom of the wage distribution. Duraisamy gender wage gap across the wage distribution in different segments of the indian labour market 1983 2012. The term sticky floor is used to describe a discriminatory employment pattern that keeps a certain group of people at the bottom of the job scale. An example can be found in the section above.