Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/185548 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7350
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals. College-educated females are significantly more mismatched than males. Individuals with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women. Cohort effects are also discernible: college-educated males of the younger cohort have lower match quality than the older cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better.
Subjects: 
multidimensional skills
occupational mismatch
match quality
wages
gender wage gap
fertility
fertility timing
JEL: 
J13
J16
J22
J23
J24
J31
J33
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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