caa a22 4500 606165487 CHVBK 20210128100653.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20151201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s00168-015-0702-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s00168-015-0702-0 Occupational skills and the gender wage gap in Seoul, Korea: a multilevel approach [Elektronische Daten] [Up Lim, Ye Choi, Heonyoung Lee] The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of occupational skills on the gender wage gap in the Seoul metropolitan region, Korea, by employing a multilevel model. To account for the diverse dimensions of skills, we measure workers' skills using disaggregated measures of occupational skills requirements from the Korea Network for Occupations and Workers data. Using factor analysis, we identify three broad occupational skills categories: cognitive, technical, and physical. The multilevel analysis yields several important empirical results. First, the average occupational wage tends to be higher in occupations that are associated with higher cognitive skills and lower levels of technical and physical skills. Second, the gender effect on wages is larger in occupations requiring higher levels of physical skills and lower levels of technical skills, when controlling for individual- and occupation-level variables. However, the wage penalty associated with technical skills is more severe for women than it is for men, suggesting a significant wage disadvantage for women in occupations associated with technical skills. Finally, in addition to the main effect of the three dimensions of occupational skills, the effect of a greater proportion of female workers within an occupation is significant and negative for all workers, but this effect is less pronounced for men. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2015 Lim Up Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, Seoul, Korea aut Choi Ye Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, Seoul, Korea aut Lee Heonyoung Korea Environment Institute, 370 Sicheong-daero, 339-007, Sejong, Korea aut The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 335-356 0570-1864 55:2-3<335 2015 55 168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0702-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00168-015-0702-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lim Up Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Choi Ye Department of Urban Planning and Engineering, Yonsei University, 50 Yonsei-ro, Seodaemun-gu, 120-749, Seoul, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lee Heonyoung Korea Environment Institute, 370 Sicheong-daero, 339-007, Sejong, Korea aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Annals of Regional Science Springer Berlin Heidelberg 55/2-3(2015-12-01), 335-356 0570-1864 55:2-3<335 2015 55 168