Human Capital and Gender Inequality in Middle-Income Countries: Schooling, Learning and Socioemotional Skills in the Labour Market

ISBN-13: 9780367774929 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 288 str.

Elizabeth M. King; Dileni Gunewardena

Opis

Using comparable survey data on these schooling, skills, and labour market outcomes from 13 developing and emerging economies worldwide, this book revisits human capital and gender inequality models. It presents new estimates of the returns to different levels of schooling as well as the cognitive and socioemotional skills for women and men.

Spis treści

1.Human capital, gender and labour markets 2. A human capital model of gender inequality in the workplace 3. The premium to education and cognitive skills 4. The premium to socioemotional skills in the labour market 5. Education and skills, glass ceilings and sticky floors 6. Human capital: Challenges and roads to gender equality  Appendices