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    Gender gaps across countries and skills: Demand, supply and the industry structure

    Volume
    17
    Pagination
    842 - 859
    Journal
    Review of Economic Dynamics
    Issue
    4
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    Abstract
    The comovement of gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to the process of structural transformation. Based on a stylized, multi-sector equilibrium model, we illustrate that the gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro data across countries, we find that international differences in the industry structure explain more than eighty percent of the overall variation in labor demand between the U.S. and all other countries in our sample, and roughly one third of the overall cross-country variation in wage and hours gaps. (Copyright: Elsevier)
    Authors
    Olivetti, C; Petrongolo, B
    URI
    http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8412
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    • Economics and Finance [286]
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    Licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License. The final publication is available at Elsevier via http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2014.03.001
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