Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.

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Autor(a) principal: Figueiredo, Hugo
Data de Publicação: 2015
Outros Autores: Rocha, Vera, Biscaia, Ricardo, Teixeira, Pedro
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1446
Resumo: In this paper we investigate whether education-job mismatches and growing occupational diversity are important explanatory factors of gender pay gaps among university graduates in Southern Europe (namely in Portugal, Spain, and Italy). In our analysis we use standard decomposition techniques and test the implications of controlling for selection bias. Our results indicate that overeducation and greater occupational segregation associated with the emergence of new graduate job profiles, are important determinants of earnings inequality. While our focus is on graduates’ early careers, demonstrating that occupational assignment and selection into employment shape gender pay gaps among the highly skilled provides a more pessimistic view on the ability of educational expansion or equal pay legislation to significantly reduce gender pay inequality. Southern European economies are also particularly interesting to look at since there may be a greater degree of mismatch between the pace of higher education expansion and the changes in the job structure, making women particularly vulnerable to overeducation.
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spelling Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.Education mismatchGender pay gapGraduate employmentJob structureSelection biasWage inequalityIn this paper we investigate whether education-job mismatches and growing occupational diversity are important explanatory factors of gender pay gaps among university graduates in Southern Europe (namely in Portugal, Spain, and Italy). In our analysis we use standard decomposition techniques and test the implications of controlling for selection bias. Our results indicate that overeducation and greater occupational segregation associated with the emergence of new graduate job profiles, are important determinants of earnings inequality. While our focus is on graduates’ early careers, demonstrating that occupational assignment and selection into employment shape gender pay gaps among the highly skilled provides a more pessimistic view on the ability of educational expansion or equal pay legislation to significantly reduce gender pay inequality. Southern European economies are also particularly interesting to look at since there may be a greater degree of mismatch between the pace of higher education expansion and the changes in the job structure, making women particularly vulnerable to overeducation.2016-02-23T17:55:15Z2015-01-01T00:00:00Z2015info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/11328/1446engFigueiredo, HugoRocha, VeraBiscaia, RicardoTeixeira, Pedroinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-06-15T02:09:41ZPortal AgregadorONG
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
title Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
spellingShingle Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
Figueiredo, Hugo
Education mismatch
Gender pay gap
Graduate employment
Job structure
Selection bias
Wage inequality
title_short Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
title_full Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
title_fullStr Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
title_full_unstemmed Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
title_sort Gender Pay Gaps and the Restructuring of Graduate Labour Markets in Southern Europe.
author Figueiredo, Hugo
author_facet Figueiredo, Hugo
Rocha, Vera
Biscaia, Ricardo
Teixeira, Pedro
author_role author
author2 Rocha, Vera
Biscaia, Ricardo
Teixeira, Pedro
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Figueiredo, Hugo
Rocha, Vera
Biscaia, Ricardo
Teixeira, Pedro
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Education mismatch
Gender pay gap
Graduate employment
Job structure
Selection bias
Wage inequality
topic Education mismatch
Gender pay gap
Graduate employment
Job structure
Selection bias
Wage inequality
description In this paper we investigate whether education-job mismatches and growing occupational diversity are important explanatory factors of gender pay gaps among university graduates in Southern Europe (namely in Portugal, Spain, and Italy). In our analysis we use standard decomposition techniques and test the implications of controlling for selection bias. Our results indicate that overeducation and greater occupational segregation associated with the emergence of new graduate job profiles, are important determinants of earnings inequality. While our focus is on graduates’ early careers, demonstrating that occupational assignment and selection into employment shape gender pay gaps among the highly skilled provides a more pessimistic view on the ability of educational expansion or equal pay legislation to significantly reduce gender pay inequality. Southern European economies are also particularly interesting to look at since there may be a greater degree of mismatch between the pace of higher education expansion and the changes in the job structure, making women particularly vulnerable to overeducation.
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