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Occupational prestige and gender-occupational segregation

The purpose of this article is to determine whether there is a relationship between the proportion of women working ... Show more
The purpose of this article is to determine whether there is a relationship between the proportion of women working in an occupation and the prestige assigned to that occupation. Based on a representative sample of Spanish employees from the Spanish Quality of Working Life Survey, pooled-sample data (2007-2010) are used to show that occupations with larger shares of women present lower prestige, controlling for a set of objective individual and work-related variables, and self-assessed indicators of working conditions. However, the results obtained do not support the devaluation theory since an inverted-U relationship between female share and occupational prestige is observed. This conclusion holds even after passing a battery of robustness checks.
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Authors: Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada; Montuenga-Gomez, Victor M.; Garcia-Martin, Guillermo

Date: 2018

Geographic subjects: Spain; Europe

Resource type: Article

Series name: Special issue: Professions, skills and deprofessionalisation

Journal title: Work, employment and society

Subjects: Gender; Employment; Equity ... [+] Show more
Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain

This paper investigates the returns to education in two Southern [European Union] EU countries, Portugal and Spain, ... Show more
This paper investigates the returns to education in two Southern [European Union] EU countries, Portugal and Spain, both characterized by a relatively high self-employment rate. The impact of education on both wage earners and the self-employed is analyzed by using a comparable data set coming from the European Community household panel during the period 1994-2000. To correct for the ability bias and recover the education coefficients, an efficient generalized instrumental variable technique is applied. Results show that returns are different across the two countries as well as across the two employment statuses.
Comment by Jordahl, Poutvaara and Tuomala indexed at TD/TNC 97.897.
Published abstract reprinted from 'Economics of education review', copyright 2005, with permission from Elsevier. Show less

Authors: Garcia-Mainar, Inmaculada; Montuenga-Gomez, Victor M.

Date: 2005

Geographic subjects: Europe; Spain; Portugal

Resource type: Article

Journal title: Economics of education review

Subjects: Economics; Outcomes; Income ... [+] Show more
Cross-national research on school to work transitions: an analytical framework

This paper reviews the main comparative research papers on the transition from secondary school level to work, prim ... Show more
This paper reviews the main comparative research papers on the transition from secondary school level to work, primarily in Europe. The paper aims to identify the important dimensions of variation among education/training systems and their national contexts, which may be hypothesised to influence the success of transitions. It develops a conceptual framework to represent inter-country variations in the nature of the school to work transition process. There are four dimensions of a conceptual framework: the national context; the nature of the education and training system in each country and its connection to the labour market, as well as state policies influencing these processes; the structure of the school to work transition process itself, and the outcomes of the transition process - 'success' and 'failure' in transitions; and variations among the groups of young people in the outcomes achieved. Recommendations are made for additional information needed to test the hypotheses. Show less

Authors: Hannan, Damian F.; Raffe, David; Smyth, Emer

Corporate authors: Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

Date: 1996

Geographic subjects: Europe

Resource type: Report, paper or authored book

Subjects: Labour market; Providers of education and training; Secondary education ... [+] Show more

Occupational prestige and gender-occupational segregation

Education returns of wage earners and self-employed workers: Portugal vs. Spain

Cross-national research on school to work transitions: an analytical framework