Measurements of Skill and Skill-Use Using PIAAC

Daiji Kawaguchi and Takahiro Toriyabe ()
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Takahiro Toriyabe: University of Tokyo

No 15177, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as well as the gap between immigrants and natives. We also show that the skill use index captures the side effect of parental- leave policies on females that conventional labor-market outcomes fail to capture. We discuss how the newly developed indices can be merged to conventional survey data.

Keywords: parental leave; gender gap; skill use; measurement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D12 H24 J12 J13 J16 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 92 pages
Date: 2022-03
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Published - published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102197.

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