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Does “Glass Ceiling” or “Sticky Floor” Affects Female Graduates Born in the 1980s? Yuanfa Tan (Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, 610074, China) Abstract: Based on the data of the “survey of Chinese graduates applying for jobs and their work skills” in 2007 and 2008 in Shandong province, this paper uses the method proposed by Melly (2006) to decompose gender pay gap among graduates Born in the 1980s across the wage distribution controlling their work skills. The findings show male graduates s by the six months after graduation earn 9 to19 percent more than female gradua