Skill Specificity of Upper-Secondary Training Occupations and the Gender Pay Gap
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Skill Specificity of Upper-Secondary Training Occupations and the Gender Pay Gap Miriam Grønning · Irene Kriesi · Stefan Sacchi
© Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, ein Teil von Springer Nature 2020, corrected publication 2020
Abstract Gender disparities in wages are still fairly large. On average, women earn less than men from the beginning of their careers. This article investigates whether young men and women with vocational education and training receive different returns for occupation-specific and general skills, a topic that has hitherto received little attention. Theoretically, we draw on a culturalist approach, as well as on the varieties of capitalism approach. The analyses are based on a combination of detailed occupation-level data on the specificity of training occupations and individuallevel data from the Swiss Labour Force Survey on the incomes of upper-secondary vocational diploma holders. The results of multilevel regression models show that men’s and women’s incomes are affected by a complex interplay between gender and skill endowment. Occupation-specific vocational skills only secure a high income early in the careers of men who trained in male-typed or gender-neutral occupations. Women profit from a high proportion of general knowledge in their training. Furthermore, we find evidence for a general devaluation of female-typed skills. In sum, the findings suggest that employers’ discriminatory remuneration practices, a genOnline-Anhang: www.kzfss.uni-koeln.de/sites/kzfss/pdf/Gronning_et_al.pdf Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/ s11577-020-00678-z) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. M. Grønning () · I. Kriesi Swiss Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training SFIVET 3052 Zollikofen, Switzerland E-Mail: [email protected] I. Kriesi E-Mail: [email protected] S. Sacchi Department of Social Science, University of Bern 3012 Bern, Switzerland E-Mail: [email protected]
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eral devaluation of female-typed skills and young people’s rational skill investment decisions contribute jointly to the gender gap in income. Keywords Gender wage disparities · Vocational specificity · General education · Occupational gender segregation · Vocational education and training · Varieties of capitalism · Devaluation theory
Berufliche Spezifität und Einkommensunterschiede zwischen Männern und Frauen Zusammenfassung Geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede sind nach wie vor bedeutend. Im Durchschnitt verdienen Frauen bereits ab dem Beginn ihrer Berufslaufbahn weniger als Männer. Wir untersuchen in diesem Beitrag, ob junge Frauen und Männer mit Berufsbildung unterschiedliche Renditen für berufsspezifische und allgemeine Kenntnisse erhalten, ein Thema, das in der bisherigen Forschung wenig Beachtung gefunden hat. Theoretisch stützen wir uns sowohl auf die Devaluierungstheorie als auch auf die Varieties-of-Capitalism-Theorie. Detaillierte Indikatoren für die berufliche Spezif
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