Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets?
The paper investigates the gender wage gap in relation to the multi-dimensional human capital measure, asking which human capital components are most valued in the European labour markets. Relying on the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for seventeen European...
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| description | The paper investigates the gender wage gap in relation to the multi-dimensional human capital measure, asking which human capital components are most valued in the European labour markets. Relying on the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for seventeen European countries and applying Gelbach () decomposition, we document remarkable cross-country disparities in the returns to different human capital components. The only dimension that consistently and significantly decreases gender wage disparities in all countries is work experience related to a currently occupied position. Numeracy cognitive ability is another strong predictors of the gender wage disparity, while job-specific cognitive and non-cognitive skills reveal weaker than expected association with the gender wage gap. Unlike the studies stressing the decreasing importance of human capital in the gender wage gap assessment, we argue that a narrow definition of human capital may undermine the actual effect of the latter. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-35f5aa90ce914ca2aa698a5a9d7da4f02022-12-21T23:48:37ZengTaylor & Francis GroupBaltic Journal of Economics1406-099X2334-43852022-01-01221284810.1080/1406099X.2022.20334182033418Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets?Maryna Tverdostup0Tiiu Paas1The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw)School of Economics and Business Administration, University of TartuThe paper investigates the gender wage gap in relation to the multi-dimensional human capital measure, asking which human capital components are most valued in the European labour markets. Relying on the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data for seventeen European countries and applying Gelbach () decomposition, we document remarkable cross-country disparities in the returns to different human capital components. The only dimension that consistently and significantly decreases gender wage disparities in all countries is work experience related to a currently occupied position. Numeracy cognitive ability is another strong predictors of the gender wage disparity, while job-specific cognitive and non-cognitive skills reveal weaker than expected association with the gender wage gap. Unlike the studies stressing the decreasing importance of human capital in the gender wage gap assessment, we argue that a narrow definition of human capital may undermine the actual effect of the latter.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2022.2033418decompositioneuropean labour marketsgender wage gaphuman capital |
| spellingShingle | Maryna Tverdostup Tiiu Paas Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? Baltic Journal of Economics decomposition european labour markets gender wage gap human capital |
| title | Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? |
| title_full | Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? |
| title_fullStr | Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? |
| title_short | Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets? |
| title_sort | gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components how different are european labour markets |
| topic | decomposition european labour markets gender wage gap human capital |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2022.2033418 |
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