Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries

Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries

In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Flabbi, Luca
Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:
World Development Report 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9113
id okr-10986-9113
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-91132021-04-23T14:02:44Z Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries Flabbi, Luca World Development Report 2012 In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor market are still significant and persistent. At the same time, differences in pre-labor market characteristics, in particular education, have decreased and in most OECD countries women now acquire more education than men. However, if the differences in the amount of education acquired by men and women are small, the differences in the type of education (such as the field of study, major or other characteristics of the study programme) are still large. 2012-06-26T15:38:50Z 2012-06-26T15:38:50Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9113 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Africa Europe and Central Asia Middle East and North Africa Latin America & Caribbean East Asia and Pacific South Asia
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language English
topic World Development Report 2012
spellingShingle World Development Report 2012
Flabbi, Luca
Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
geographic_facet Africa
Europe and Central Asia
Middle East and North Africa
Latin America & Caribbean
East Asia and Pacific
South Asia
description In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor market are still significant and persistent. At the same time, differences in pre-labor market characteristics, in particular education, have decreased and in most OECD countries women now acquire more education than men. However, if the differences in the amount of education acquired by men and women are small, the differences in the type of education (such as the field of study, major or other characteristics of the study programme) are still large.
author Flabbi, Luca
author_facet Flabbi, Luca
author_sort Flabbi, Luca
title Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
title_short Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
title_full Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
title_fullStr Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
title_full_unstemmed Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
title_sort gender differences in education, career choices and labor market outcomes on a sample of oecd countries
publisher World Bank
publishDate 2012
url http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9113
_version_ 1764408515423633408

Similar Items