全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5503 Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labour Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5503
	DP5503 Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labour Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement
	Ana Lamo; Etienne Wasmer; Julián Messina
发表日期	2006-02-13
出版年	2006
语种	英语
摘要	Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively high-wage characteristics, low female employment rates may become consistent with low gender wage gaps simply because low-wage women would not feature in the observed wage distribution. We explore this idea across the US and EU countries estimating gender gaps in potential wages. We recover information on wages for those not in work in a given year using alternative imputation techniques. Imputation is based on (i) wage observations from other waves in the sample, (ii) observable characteristics of the nonemployed and (iii) a statistical repeated-sampling model. We then estimate median wage gaps on the resulting imputed wage distributions, thus simply requiring assumptions on the position of the imputed wage observations with respect to the median, but not on their level. We obtain higher median wage gaps on imputed rather than actual wage distributions for most countries in the sample. However, this difference is small in the US, the UK and most central and northern EU countries, and becomes sizeable in Ireland, France and southern EU, all countries in which gender employment gaps are high. In particular, correction for employment selection explains more than a half of the observed correlation between wage and employment gaps.
主题	Labour Economics
关键词	Median gender gaps Sample selection Wage imputation
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5503
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534366
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ana Lamo,Etienne Wasmer,Julián Messina. DP5503 Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labour Market Adjustment? Theory and an Application to the EU Enlargement. 2006.