Education systems and gender inequalities in educational returns

Abstract

"In this chapter, we discussed gender inequalities in returns on education in countries implementing different policies and educational systems, and we analysed the role and the impact of institutional variables in the decision of the individual to invest in education. Towards this aim, we embedded the Mincerian coefficients in an individual decision problem, together with several parameters capturing the characteristics of the labour market and tax system, the costs of the investment in education and public policies which may affect the incentive to invest. To compute the gender-specific returns on education, we have also explicitly considered policy variables related to maternity episodes." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

Cite article

Mendolicchio, C. (2016): Education systems and gender inequalities in educational returns. In: A. Hadjar & C. Gross (Hrsg.) (2016): Education systems and inequalities : international comparisons, p. 259-277.