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The gender gap in early career in Mongolia

Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in 2006. On average, female wages are not lower than those of males. However, women have a much higher average educational level than men: in fact, although not statistically significant among teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1993) decomposition confirms that, if wages were paid equally, women should have 11.7% more considering only their educational advantage and overall 22% more, a substantial gap for the low earnings of Mongolians.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4480

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Job, Occupational, and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: General
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
Thema
School-to-work transitions
earnings equations
decomposition analysis
gender wage gap
Asia
Mongolia
Lohndifferenzierung
Berufseinstieg
Frauenbildung
Bildungsniveau
Geschlecht
Mongolei

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Pastore, Francesco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091019293
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Pastore, Francesco
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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