Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries

In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor market are still significant and persistent. At the same time, differences in pre-labor market characteristics, in particular education, have decreased and in most OECD countries women now acquire more education than men. However, if the differences in the amount of education acquired by men and women are small, the differences in the type of education (such as the field of study, major or other characteristics of the study programme) are still large.

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Main Author: Flabbi, Luca
Language:English
Published: World Bank 2012
Subjects:World Development Report 2012,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9113
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spelling dig-okr-1098691132023-11-17T16:11:13Z Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries Flabbi, Luca World Development Report 2012 In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor market are still significant and persistent. At the same time, differences in pre-labor market characteristics, in particular education, have decreased and in most OECD countries women now acquire more education than men. However, if the differences in the amount of education acquired by men and women are small, the differences in the type of education (such as the field of study, major or other characteristics of the study programme) are still large. 2012-06-26T15:38:50Z 2012-06-26T15:38:50Z 2012 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9113 English CC BY 3.0 IGO World Bank http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ application/pdf World Bank
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Gender Differences in Education, Career Choices and Labor Market Outcomes on A Sample of OECD Countries
description In most OECD countries gender differentials in the labor market have experienced a steady reduction in the 1970s and 1980s. Starting with the 1990s, however, the convergence between the labor market performance of men and women has essentially stopped. As a result, gender differentials in the labor market are still significant and persistent. At the same time, differences in pre-labor market characteristics, in particular education, have decreased and in most OECD countries women now acquire more education than men. However, if the differences in the amount of education acquired by men and women are small, the differences in the type of education (such as the field of study, major or other characteristics of the study programme) are still large.
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