Gender differences in the skill content of jobs

Autor: Rita Pető, Balázs Reizer
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
Family and Changing Gender Roles IV - ISSP 2012
Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey (PIAAC) (ZA5900) [Ecomics of gender
Tima allocation
International Social Survey Programme]
Economics and Econometrics
Economics
qualification requirements
education
Control (management)
Time allocation
Benachteiligung
Human capital
Task (project management)
deprivation
Humankapital
gender-specific factors
cognitive ability
0502 economics and business
ddc:330
human capital
Cognitive skill
Frau
050207 economics
Berufsforschung
Berufssoziologie
Qualifikationsanforderungen
Social sciences
sociology
anthropology
050205 econometrics
Demography
Social policy
Occupational Research
Occupational Sociology
Sozialwissenschaften
Soziologie
ISSP
05 social sciences
Wirtschaft
occupational requirements
General Social Survey
Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
General partnership
geschlechtsspezifische Faktoren
woman
ddc:300
Demographic economics
Women's Studies
Feminist Studies
Gender Studies
available workers
Psychology
Berufsanforderungen
kognitive Fähigkeit
Arbeitskräfteangebot
Zdroj: Journal of Population Economics
Popis: There is significant heterogeneity in actual skill use within occupations even though occupations are differentiated by the task workers should perform during work. Using data on 12 countries which are available both in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies survey and International Social Survey Program, we show that women use their cognitive skills less than men even within the same occupation. The gap in skill intensity cannot be explained by differences in worker characteristics or in cognitive skills. Instead, we show that living in a partnership significantly increases the skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender penalty of partnered women is halved once we control for working hours and hours spent on housework. Finally, we do not find evidence of workplace discrimination against women.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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