In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper … examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they … remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and …

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …

, skills needed for the job, other job-specific characteristics and motivations for employment) in order to interpret the over …

; secondly, wage compression is linked to labor market outcomes in terms of employment. Compressed wage structure (usually caused … compression hypothesis hold? Based on the PIAAC survey of adult skills for seventeen OECD countries, this paper seeks to shed …

British Skills and Employment Survey series, we analyse trends in the labour market between 1997/2001 and 2006/2012. The … statistically derived indicator of graduate jobs, based on job skill requirements in three-digit occupations obtained from the … overeducation status did not change but for non-employed male graduates moving into employment, the chances of entering a graduate …

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

This paper investigates international differences in wage inequality and skills and whether a compressed wage …, and skill differences explain part of the differences in wage dispersion. However, even when accounted for skills, some … of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey of adult skills for core OECD countries, this paper cannot confirm the skill …