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

Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez and Liliana Meza González
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Reyna Elizabeth Rodríguez Pérez: Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila
Liliana Meza González: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía - Universidad Iberoamericana

Estudios Económicos, 2021, vol. 36, issue 2, 331-362

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.

Keywords: wages; gender wage differentials; technological change; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J31 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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