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Human Capital and Gender Inequality in Middle-Income Countries

Elizabeth M. King | Dileni Gunewardena
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Earnings Distribution
Earnings Function
Earnings Gaps
educational attainment outcomes
emerging economies labour analysis
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formal employment
Gender Earnings Gap
Gender Gap
gender gaps
gender inequality
Gender Wage Gap
gendered human capital returns analysis
glass ceiling effects
glass ceilings
Increase Schooling Levels
informal employment
Labour Force Participation Equation
labour market discrimination
Lao PDR
Lao People's Democratic Republic
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
LFP
Low Gdp
Reading Literacy Assessment
self-employment
Socio-emotional Skills
socioemotional competencies
socioemotional or noncognitive skills
Socioemotional Skills
Stem Degree
sticky floors
Tertiary Education
Unexplained Gap
Unexplained Gender
Upper End
workforce gender gaps
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780367774929
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 25 Nov 2022
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

The role of cognitive and socioemotional skills alongside education in determining people’s success in the labour market has been the topic of a growing body of research - but previous studies have mostly missed middle-income countries and the developing world because measures of those skills and data on employment and earnings on large enough samples of adults have typically not been available.

Using comparable survey data on these schooling, skills and labour market outcomes from 13 developing and emerging economies worldwide, this book revisits human capital and gender inequality models. It presents new estimates of the returns to different levels of schooling as well as cognitive and socioemotional skills for women and men. It examines whether those returns are due to levels of human capital or to structural bias in labour markets, and how these two factors work across the earnings spectrum. The book examines the existence of 'glass ceilings' and 'sticky floors' for women using this expanded measure of human capital. Further, by analyzing a group of countries of wide-ranging levels of economic development and socio-political contexts, the book reveals patterns and insights into how context mediates the relationship between skills and gender gaps in labour market outcomes.

This book will be of interest to scholars of human capital and gender inequality in the labour market and development economics, as well as gender and development policy makers.
About Dileni Gunewardena | Elizabeth M. King

Elizabeth M. King is Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA.

Dileni Gunewardena is Professor of Economics at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Fellow, Verité Research, Sri Lanka.

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