Cerina, Fabio; Moro, Alessio; Rendall, Michelle - 2017 - This version: March 2017
We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980-2008 period is largely generated by women. Female employment … shares increase both at the bottom and at the top of the skill distribution, generating the typical U-shape polarization … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …