terms of credibility, relevance, and expectedness by gender and education level. Females are particularly rewarded for IT … and language skills and males for maturity. Chapter 3 analyses the impact of beliefs about refugees' education levels on …This doctoral thesis analyses the impact of education and other determinants on labour market outcomes using …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students … and adults in developing critical skills and reducing the skills imbalances in the labour market, which can contribute to …

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 …

. However, the direction of the gender effect differs significantly by education. Only females among the college educated are … that there are gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. In particular …

gender wage gap between 1985 and 2010 can be explained by a reduction in occupational segregation between the genders. The … remaining 35% are explained by shifts in occupational wages which increased within occupations important for female employment … Böhm et al. (2019) that average wages do not move as much as skill prices, I reestimate the part of the declining wage gap …

performance. Finally, chapter 5 presents new insights to gender gaps in adult cognitive skills, showing that they are highly …This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education … related to wages, especially at the top of the wage distribution. …

We study how the tasks conducted on the job relate to measures of cognitive skills using data from 18 countries …

-priced education. The results of this paper confirm that both expected wages and admission probabilities determine students … strategies to higher education. The starting hypothesis of this study is that students consider the expected utility of their …

between occupational feminization and wages and estimate the contribution of occupational sex-segregation to the gender pay … wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More …. We examine whether lower wages in female-dominated occupations in Britain are explained by differences in specialized …

skills are important in determining mean wages, personality traits have little explanatory power. However, quantile … existence of sex-specific skills of their workers, which could then widen the within-firm gender wage gap. …We use a first-hand linked employer-employee dataset representing the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender …