sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns …

effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College … a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q …-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms …

persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to … mothers' longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the …Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers' employment and earnings drop …

participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills … effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey …

There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our … measure of overconfidence. Our results show that men being more overconfident explains 5-11 percent of the gender gap in top …

job employment. This indicates that while overconfidence matters for gender inequality in the labor market and has …There is a large gender gap in the probability of being in a "top job" in mid-career. Top jobs bring higher earnings … women. We then use linear regression and decomposition techniques to account for the gender gap in top jobs including our …

effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers … cognitive occupations for both categories have the smallest employment shares, there are also important differences. An … investigation into the changes in employment shares reveals that female workers suffer less of a decline in routine cognitive jobs …

This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade … theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment … skill formation has a positive impact on employment opportunities and wages. This result exhibits robustness in tests on …

We estimate the effects of unobserved skills on labor market outcomes by investigating a change in the distribution of … unobserved skills. Among people with the same levels of observed skills such as education and work experience, there are still … disparities in labor market outcomes. since employers cannot observe all applicantsâ skills and productivity, they rely on the …