Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set

We analyze the gender differences in skills, tasks and skill matching of workers, and the impact of these factors on the gender wage gap, using the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We show that data on these chara...

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Autores: Christl, Michael, Köppl-Turyna, Monika
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Loyola Andalucía
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Skills
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spelling Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data setChristl, MichaelKöppl-Turyna, MonikaGender wage gapSkillsAustriaWe analyze the gender differences in skills, tasks and skill matching of workers, and the impact of these factors on the gender wage gap, using the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We show that data on these characteristics, not available in traditional data sets, explain a substantial part of the gender wage gap. Based on up-to-date econometric methodology, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by six to nine percentage points across the whole wage distribution when we add skill and occupational task variables and control for sample selection. We show that this result stems from gender differences in returns on tasks and skills, and gender differences in skill endowments and occupational tasks.Es la versión preprint del artículo. Se puede consultar la versión final en https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2019.16307072020info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12412/7231reponame:Brújulainstname:Universidad Loyola AndalucíaInglésinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:dnet:brújula_____::8359172c70fa29d1ae6c3c21986377172026-06-24T12:48:37Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
title Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
spellingShingle Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
Christl, Michael
Gender wage gap
Skills
Austria
title_short Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
title_full Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
title_fullStr Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
title_full_unstemmed Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
title_sort Gender wage gap and the role of skills and tasks: evidence from the Austrian PIAAC data set
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Christl, Michael
Köppl-Turyna, Monika
author Christl, Michael
author_facet Christl, Michael
Köppl-Turyna, Monika
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Gender wage gap
Skills
Austria
topic Gender wage gap
Skills
Austria
description We analyze the gender differences in skills, tasks and skill matching of workers, and the impact of these factors on the gender wage gap, using the Survey of Adult Skills, a product of the OECD Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We show that data on these characteristics, not available in traditional data sets, explain a substantial part of the gender wage gap. Based on up-to-date econometric methodology, the unexplained part of the gender wage gap is reduced by six to nine percentage points across the whole wage distribution when we add skill and occupational task variables and control for sample selection. We show that this result stems from gender differences in returns on tasks and skills, and gender differences in skill endowments and occupational tasks.
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