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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spelling	okr-10986-256792021-06-08T14:42:46Z Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data Tognatta, Namrata Valerio, Alexandria Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura gender wage gap skills cognitive skills noncognitive skills 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 wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven low- and middle-income countries that participated in the STEP Skills Measurement Survey to conduct a comparative analysis of gender wage gaps. The paper uses schooling and skills measures, including reading proficiency and complexity of on-the-job computer tasks to proxy cognitive skills, and personality and behavioral measures to proxy for noncognitive skills in wage decompositions. The analysis finds that years of school explain most of the gender wage gap. The findings also suggest that cognitive and noncognitive skills affect men’s and women’s earnings in different ways, and that the effects of these skills vary across the wage distribution and between countries. 2016-12-05T23:19:24Z 2016-12-05T23:19:24Z 2016-11 Working Paper 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 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 7878 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Eastern Europe Europe and Central Asia Armenia Bolivia Colombia Georgia Kenya Ukraine Vietnam
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spellingShingle	gender wage gap skills cognitive skills noncognitive skills Tognatta, Namrata Valerio, Alexandria Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
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description	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 wages. This paper uses data from adults in seven low- and middle-income countries that participated in the STEP Skills Measurement Survey to conduct a comparative analysis of gender wage gaps. The paper uses schooling and skills measures, including reading proficiency and complexity of on-the-job computer tasks to proxy cognitive skills, and personality and behavioral measures to proxy for noncognitive skills in wage decompositions. The analysis finds that years of school explain most of the gender wage gap. The findings also suggest that cognitive and noncognitive skills affect men’s and women’s earnings in different ways, and that the effects of these skills vary across the wage distribution and between countries.
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author	Tognatta, Namrata Valerio, Alexandria Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
author_facet	Tognatta, Namrata Valerio, Alexandria Sanchez Puerta, Maria Laura
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title	Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
title_short	Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
title_full	Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
title_fullStr	Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
title_full_unstemmed	Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data
title_sort	do cognitive and noncognitive skills explain the gender wage gap in middle-income countries? : an analysis using step data
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
url	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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Do Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills Explain the Gender Wage Gap in Middle-Income Countries? : An Analysis Using STEP Data

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