Female long-term labour market outcomes: the role of early-life abilities and education

Donata Favaro () and Dario Sciulli ()

Applied Economics, 2022, vol. 54, issue 3, 340-353

Abstract: We study how early-life cognitive skills, non-cognitive abilities, and family characteristics influence educational choices and affect later employment outcomes and wages. The analysis was carried out on a cohort of UK females observed at different life stages by adopting the British National Child Development Study database. Our findings provide evidence of how early-life abilities and family characteristics affect both the educational attainment and later labour market outcomes of female workers. However, we found that educational levels interact with early-life abilities, productive characteristics in general, and other characteristics, giving rise to different employment outcomes and income prospects conditioned on educational attainment. Occupational outcomes and wages of low-educated women are more sensitive to factors that are not strictly linked to productivity.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1962510

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