The Impacts of Firms' Technology Choice on the Gender Differences in Wage and Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis

Daichi Shirai, Kohei Nagamachi and Naotaka Eguchi

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Abstract: This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps---particularly those variations in the wages and time devoted to home production. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model that includes firm technology choice and home production. The numerical results reveal that the cross-country variations in both the wage and time gender gaps are substantially affected by technology choice---which suggests the persistence of the gender gap---and that a convergence in the technology choice across countries does not imply smaller cross-country variations in all gender gap--related measures.

Keywords: appropriate technology choice; gender wage gap; home production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D13 D58 E13 E24 J16 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-20, Revised 2014-06-13
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