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The Role of Gender in Employment Polarization

Fabio Cerina, Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall

No 09-20, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980-2017 period is largely generated by women. In addition, we provide evidence that the increase of employ- ment shares at the bottom of the skill distribution are generated in market sectors producing services representing home production substitutes. We then show that a canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimen- sion, an endogenous market/home labor choice and a two-sector market environment accounts well for gender, sectoral and overall employment polarization. Counterfactual experiments suggest that without the large increase in the skill premium of high-skilled women, employment polarization would have been substantially reduced, and changes of employment shares at the bottom of the distribution would have been negative.

Keywords: Employment Polarization; Gender; Skill Premium; Home Production. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E20 E21 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 52 pages
Date: 2020-12
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