Glass Ceiling and Earnings Disadvantages Against Immigrants and Racial/Ethnic Minorities

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Abstract

Though the glass ceiling effect predicts minority groups will face barriers in becoming promoted to supervisory positions, it is unclear whether these barriers persist against all minority groups once a high level of education is acquired and all else is held equal. We test this question against hypotheses derived from human capital theory and structural discrimination constructs with data extracted from the 2013, 2015, and 2017 National Survey of College Graduates. With the exception of Asian immigrants and 1st generation Black immigrants, we find no evidence for a glass ceiling to becoming supervisor against college-educated immigrants and racial/ethnic minority men. For several groups, however, we find evidence for subsequent wage disadvantage once hired as supervisor.

Authors

• Scott Tuttle, University of Kansas

• ChangHwan Kim, University of Kansas