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Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students

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  • Eiji Yamamura

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Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For the closer examination of Guisoet al.(2008), restricting the sample to immigrants allows us to reduce the possibility of reverse causality. Design/methodology/approach - Using PISA 2012 matched with the gender wage gap sourced from World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Index 2011, the author compares the effect of the wage gap among the areas of mathematics, science and reading. Findings - Decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced incidence of lateness and skipping school compared with boys, which in turn improves girls’ test scores in mathematics, science and reading. The direct effect of the decreased wage gap on test scores exceeds its indirect effect on performance owing to influencing school attendance. Originality/value - The findings of this paper provide evidence that higher female wage level relative to male wage level incentivizes female students to attend school, resulting in their achieving higher test scores not only for mathematics, but also for science and reading.

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  • Eiji Yamamura, 2019. "Gender wage gap and its effect on test scores of immigrant students," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 46(4), pages 872-887, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jespps:jes-04-2018-0141
    DOI: 10.1108/JES-04-2018-0141
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    1. Yamamura, Eiji, 2019. "Female teachers’ relative wage level in the 1930s and its long-term effects on current views on female labor participation: A case study from Japan," MPRA Paper 93677, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    Keywords

    Mathematics; Immigrants; Gender Gap Index; Test scores; I26; I21; J16;
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    JEL classification:

    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination

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