Elizabeth M. King, Dileni Gunewardena

Human Capital and Gender Inequality in Middle-Income Countries

Schooling, Learning and Socioemotional Skills in the Labour Market

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9780367774950
• ISBN-10: 036777495X
• Artikelnr.: 70353584

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth M. King is Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Dileni Gunewardena is Professor of Economics at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Fellow, Verité Research, Sri Lanka.

Inhaltsangabe

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