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| Title: | | The gender gap in early career in Mongolia  |
| Authors: | | Pastore, Francesco |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | IZA Discussion Papers 4480 |
| Abstract: | | Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of the fifty poorest countries in the world. This paper addresses the issue by taking advantage of a School to Work Survey (SWTS) on young people aged 15-29 years carried out in 2006. On average, female wages are not lower than those of males. However, women have a much higher average educational level than men: in fact, although not statistically significant among teenagers (15-19), the conditional gender gap becomes significant and sizeable for the over-20. The Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1993) decomposition confirms that, if wages were paid equally, women should have 11.7% more considering only their educational advantage and overall 22% more, a substantial gap for the low earnings of Mongolians. |
| Subjects: | | School-to-work transitions earnings equations decomposition analysis gender wage gap Asia Mongolia |
| JEL: | | I21 J13 J24 J31 J62 P30 R23 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-20091019293 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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