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

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Dileni Gunewardena, Elizabeth M. King, Elizabeth M. Gunewardena King, King Elizabeth M.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2024
• EAN: 9780367774950
• ISBN: 978-0-367-77495-0
• No. of pages: 244
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Economics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Industrial relations, health & safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, macroeconomics, Economic Geography, Labour / income economics, Labour Economics, Business studies: general, Gender studies, gender groups, Development economics & emerging economies, Economics of specific sectors, Development economics and emerging economies, Industrial relations, occupational health and safety, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor / General