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Gender disparities in wage returns to human capital components: how different are European labour markets?
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Abstract 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 ... view more
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 (Citation2016) 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.... view less
Keywords
Europe; labor market; gender-specific factors; human capital; wage difference; professional experience; international comparison; arithmetic
Classification
Labor Market Research
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
decomposition; gender wage gap; PIAAC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 28-48
Journal
Baltic Journal of Economics, 22 (2022) 1
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2022.2033418
ISSN
1406-099X
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed