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

Claudia Olivetti and Barbara Petrongolo

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2014, vol. 17, issue 4, 842-859

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)

Keywords: Gender gaps; Skills; Demand and supply; Industry structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J16 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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