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More Than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available (English)

This paper uses measures of cognitive and noncognitive skills in an expanded definition of human capital to examine how schooling and skills differ between men and women and how those differences relate to gender gaps in earnings across nine middle-income countries. The analysis finds that post-secondary schooling and cognitive skills are more important for women's earnings at the lower end and middle of the earnings distribution, and that men and...
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Gunewardena,Dileni N.; King,Elizabeth M.; Valerio,Alexandria.

More Than Schooling : Understanding Gender Differences in the Labor Market When Measures of Skill Are Available (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8588 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/356091537360897955

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