Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263393 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 15177
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as well as the gap between immigrants and natives. We also show that the skill use index captures the side effect of parental- leave policies on females that conventional labor-market outcomes fail to capture. We discuss how the newly developed indices can be merged to conventional survey data.
Subjects: 
parental leave
gender gap
skill use
measurement
JEL: 
D12
H24
J16
J12
J13
J16
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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