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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India
Sharma, Shruti - 2019
This paper uses the task content model of occupations to investigate whether technology and trade have had differential effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers based on whether they have routine manual, routine...
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
This paper provides an overview of what has happened over the past fifty years for women as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then go on to...
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How labour market outcomes reflect age, gender and skills in Korea
Pareliussen, Jon - 2022
Using micro-data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), this paper seeks to answer how age, gender and … determined by these demographic profiles rather than education, skills and experience. It finds that literacy skills and tertiary … education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do …
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Chen, Liwen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2017
Job mobility, especially early in a career, is an important source of wage growth. This effect is typically attributed to heterogeneity in the quality of employee-employer matches, with individuals learning of their abilities and discovering the tasks at which they are most productive through...
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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK
Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage gap increases over the life cycle, especially between...
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Things versus people: gender differences in vocational interests and in occupational preferences
Kuhn, Andreas; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2020
Occupational choices remain strongly segregated by gender, for reasons not yet fully understood. In this paper, we use detailed information on the cognitive requirements in 130 distinct learnable occupations in the Swiss apprenticeship system to describe the broad job content in these...
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Gender inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - 2023
This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and...
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Occupation and Gender
Cortes, Patricia - 2017
characteristics, personality traits, and skills. Using detailed data on occupational work content from O*NET linked to the American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959045
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Intergenerational mobility in occupational choices : are there gender differences in Ghana?
Twumasi Baffour, Priscilla; Turkson, Festus Ebo; … - 2021
' occupation on children's occupation. Mother's occupation is found to have a much greater impact on offspring's occupation than …
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