Cognitive Skills and Employment Status: Is There a Gender Difference?

Nur Banu Kartal; Tolga Aksoy

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Cognitive Skills and Employment Status: Is There a Gender Difference?

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This paper examines the gender differences in the association between cognitive skills and employment status. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) spanning 2003–2019, we measure cognitive skills through the Symbol Digit Test (SDT), administered in three waves and assumed to be time-invariant. Our findings reveal a prominent and statistically significant positive relationship between cognitive skills and employment probability, with considerable gender disparities. In particular, the returns to cognitive skills are consistently higher for men. These results remain robust across different estimation methods and hold when considering both time-invariant and time-variant cognitive skills. We explore potential mechanisms driving these patterns, including social norms and individual heterogeneity.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Cognitive Skills, Employment Status, Panel Data Models, Gender Differences

Teşekkür

We are grateful to Alpaslan Akay, Bilge Eriş Dereli, Guido Neidhöfer, and Hüseyin Taştan for their valuable comments and suggestions. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and comments.

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Birincil Dil

İngilizce

Konular

Panel Veri Analizi , Uygulamalı Mikro Ekonometri, İstihdam

Bölüm

Araştırma Makalesi

Yazarlar

Nur Banu Kartal ^*
0000-0001-7022-8682
Türkiye

Tolga Aksoy
0000-0003-0833-8543
Türkiye

Yayımlanma Tarihi

7 Eylül 2025

Gönderilme Tarihi

21 Şubat 2025

Kabul Tarihi

27 Haziran 2025

Yayımlandığı Sayı

Yıl 2025 Cilt: 14 Sayı: 2

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1.Nur Banu Kartal, Tolga Aksoy. Cognitive Skills and Employment Status: Is There a Gender Difference? Ekonomi-tek [Internet]. 01 Eylül 2025;14(2):291-32. Erişim adresi: https://izlik.org/JA28PY27ZR

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