Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data

Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data

Gender-based wage discrimination is a highly researched area of labor economics. However, most studies on this topic have focused on schooling and paid limited attention to the mechanisms through which cognitive and noncognitive skills influence wa...

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Main Authors: Tognatta, Namrata, Valerio, Alexandria, Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:
gender wage gap
skills
cognitive skills
noncognitive skills
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/479671478193527141/Do-cognitive-and-noncognitive-skills-explain-the-gender-wage-gap-in-middle-income-countries-an-analysis-using-STEP-data
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25679

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