Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

L. Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

No 1404, Discussion Papers from Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)

Abstract: This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand shift raising women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the observed trends.

Keywords: Gender Gaps; Structural Transformation; Marketization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 46 pages
Date: 2014-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dem, nep-lab and nep-mac
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