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  • This chapter explores a direct measure of labour utilisation – on-the-job use of information-processing and generic skills. An actual on-the-job use of skills sheds a light on the input side of the labour market, namely, individual skills and competencies as major productive resources. This chapter focuses on Estonia as a country with Europe’s highest gender wage gap. While the gender wage disparity was widely addressed in the literature, there is no empirical evidence on the actual gender gap in utilisation of productive skills. This question constitutes a focal point of this chapter. Relying on the Program of International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) data, the analysis reveals stark gender disparities in skill utilisation. Women tend to use skills systematically less than men with comparable demographic, human capital, and employment profiles. Gendered job segregation appears to be a major observed factor driving the disparities. However, the analysis signals that unobserved forces, such as non-cognitive abilities, gender-specific job preferences, motivation, and employer discrimination may drive the remaining, unexplained gaps in skills use. The chapter draws policy attention to multi-dimensional interventions targeting gender gaps in skills utilisation, which would go beyond canonical gender quotas and affirmative action policies. (xsd:string)
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  • Skills utilisation and gender: Estonian case study (xsd:string)
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  • In Labour Market Institutions and Productivity: Labour Utilisation in Central and Eastern Europe, edited by Woźniak-Jęchorek, Beata and Pilc, Michał, 59-89, Taylor & Francis, 2020 (xsd:string)
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