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Measurements of skill and skill-use using PIAAC
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Abstract We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as well a... view more
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as well as the gap between immigrants and natives. We also show that the skill use index captures the side effect of parental-leave policies on females that conventional labor-market outcomes fail to capture. We discuss how the newly developed indices can be merged to conventional survey data.... view less
Keywords
measurement; parental leave; competence; qualification; wage difference; man; woman; migrant
Classification
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
skill use; gender gap; immigrant wage penalty; PIAAC
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-16
Journal
Labour Economics, 78 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2022.102197
ISSN
1879-1034
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0