Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36082 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4480
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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