. This paper explores cross‑country variations in the relationship between service sector expansion and female employment in … Europe and the US. We estimate the elasticity of the female employment with respect to the services employment and uncover … female employment intensity in business services. Furthermore, greater female employment intensity in business services is …

decades. First, employment has shifted from manufacturing to services. Second, the share of female employment in total … employment has risen sharply. This paper documents a novel fact linking these two trends: female employment shares within … female employment, and calibrate it to the U.S. economy. Quantitatively, we find that the rise in female employment accounts …

literature on the underlying barriers to female employment, it remains unclear how these barriers play out across different world …