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

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  • Donata Favaro
  • Dario Sciulli

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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.

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  • Donata Favaro & Dario Sciulli, 2022. "Female long-term labour market outcomes: the role of early-life abilities and education," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 54(3), pages 340-353, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:54:y:2022:i:3:p:340-353
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1962510
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