Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/285110 
Title (translated): 
Explorando diferencias de género en los mercados laborales desde la perspectiva del enfoque basado en tareas
Year of Publication: 
2023
Citation: 
[Journal:] Estudios de Economía [ISSN:] 0718-5286 [Volume:] 50 [Issue:] 2 [Year:] 2023 [Pages:] 309-360
Publisher: 
Universidad de Chile, Departamento de Economía, Santiago de Chile
Abstract: 
Using households survey microdata from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru, we characterize changes in employment and wages between the mid-2000s and the late-2010s emphasizing the gender dimension from the viewpoint of the task-based approach. We employ surveys from PIAAC-OECD to study the task content of jobs and create an index of routine task content (RTC) of occupations. We document five facts: (i) The proportion of routine tasks is currently higher for women than for men. (ii) The employment structure is considerably more biased towards high-RTC jobs in Latin America than in OECD countries, for both genders. (iii) There was an increase in the employment participation of low-RTC jobs during the period under study, mainly driven by movements in the occupational structure of women, especially the young and middle-aged. (iv) Wage gains were relatively higher in high-RTC occupations, with this pattern more pronounced for men than for women. (v) While there was a modest reduction in the gender wage gap, the decline was stronger in computer-intensive occupations.
Subjects: 
Wages
Employment structure
Occupations
Tasks
RTC index
Gender
Latin America
JEL: 
J16
J21
J31
J62
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Article

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