Employment and earnings by gender in Mexico: Its relationship with task-biased technological change

To understand how employment and earnings by gender in Mexico are related to task-biased technological change, we analyze changes in employment by occupations defined by the tasks they perform. We also decompose the gender wage gap using the unconditional quantile regressionmethod. The results indic...

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Autores: Rodríguez Pérez, Reyna Elizabeth, Meza González, Liliana
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:México
Recursos:EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Estudios Económicos de El Colegio de México
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:oai.estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx:article/422
Acesso em linha:https://estudioseconomicos.colmex.mx/index.php/economicos/article/view/422
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:wages
gender wage differentials
technological change
Mexico
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J31
O33
Salarios
diferenciales salariales por género
cambio tecnológico
México
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Resumo:To understand how employment and earnings by gender in Mexico are related to task-biased technological change, we analyze changes in employment by occupations defined by the tasks they perform. We also decompose the gender wage gap using the unconditional quantile regressionmethod. The results indicate that the female labor market is polarizing and that the gender wage gap has fallen, but mostly within those occupations involving non-routine cognitivework. These changes have caused the gender wage gap to drop mainly in the upper part of the wage distribution, benefitting women with the highest levels of human capital.