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Employment and earnings by gender in Mexico: Its relationship with task-biased technological change/Empleo e ingresos por género en México: su relación con el cambio tecnológico sesgado por tareas

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  • Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez

    (Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila)

  • Liliana Meza González

    (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía - Universidad Iberoamericana)

Abstract

To understand how employment and earnings by gender in Mexico are related to task-biased technological change, we analyze changes in employment by occupations defined by the tasks they perform. We also decompose the gender wage gap using the unconditional quantile regressionmethod. The results indicate that the female labor market is polarizing and that the gender wage gap has fallen, but mostly within those occupations involving non-routine cognitivework. These changes have caused the gender wage gap to drop mainly in the upper part of the wage distribution, benefitting women with the highest levels of human capital.

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  • Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez & Liliana Meza González, 2021. "Employment and earnings by gender in Mexico: Its relationship with task-biased technological change/Empleo e ingresos por género en México: su relación con el cambio tecnológico sesgado por tareas," Estudios Económicos, El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Económicos, vol. 36(2), pages 331-362.
    • Handle: RePEc:emx:esteco:v:36:y:2021:i:2:p:331-362
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    Keywords

    wages; gender wage differentials; technological change; Mexico;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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