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...
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2016/11/03
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ورقة عمل خاصة ببحوث السياسات
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WPS7878
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2016/11/03
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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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cognitive skill