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Gender Wage Gaps and Skills

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Even though the gender wage gap has narrowed in recent decades, it is still persistent in many countries. A lot of research has been carried out to understand the reasons behind the differences in wages between females and males. While traditional models and data sources were often not able to explain those differences in total, the access to new, more detailed data on human capital variables might give new insights on the topic. This chapter gives an overview about the most recent and most important literature on the gender wage gap. Additionally, the chapter gives insights into the latest research that uses specific information for skills and tasks. Recent studies have shown that those human capital variables differ across gender and significantly influence wages. Therefore detailed information on skills and tasks could shed light on the explanation of the wage gap and open many possibilities for future research.

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    Michael Christl & Monika Köppl-Turyna

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Christl, M., Köppl-Turyna, M. (2020). Gender Wage Gaps and Skills. In: Zimmermann, K. (eds) Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57365-6_27-1

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