IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/eti/rdpsjp/26025.html

An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in STEM Occupations (Japanese)

Author

Listed:
  • Shinpei SANO
  • Kotaro TSURU
  • Kouichi KUME

Abstract

This paper combines individual-level data from the “Internet Survey on Intergenerational Education and Training, and Cognitive and Non-cognitive Abilities” with a STEM occupation indicator constructed from Job-tag data to examine gender differences in STEM employment and the associated wage premium. Men have higher STEM occupation indicator values than women and are more likely to work in high-STEM occupations. Restricting the sample to college graduates, STEM majors exhibit higher STEM occupation indices than non-STEM majors for both genders; however, even among STEM graduates, men have higher indices than women. Regression results confirm that gender differences in entry into STEM occupations persist even among individuals who studied in STEM fields. We also find a positive STEM wage premium: the gender wage gap narrows at higher levels of STEM occupations and disappears within them, even though women are less likely to enter these occupations. These findings suggest that promoting access to higher-level STEM occupations may help reduce gender inequality.

Suggested Citation

  • Shinpei SANO & Kotaro TSURU & Kouichi KUME, 2026. "An Empirical Analysis of Gender Differences in STEM Occupations (Japanese)," Discussion Papers (Japanese) 26025, Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI).
    • Handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:26025
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.rieti.go.jp/jp/publications/dp/26j025.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eti:rdpsjp:26025. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: TANIMOTO, Toko (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/rietijp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.