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effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College … propose a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q …-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms …
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-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work … interruptions across job types defined by sector and occupation, we find large contributions from both gender differences in job … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …
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lockdown. However, men's browsing increased by significantly more, causing gender gaps overall and in key browsing categories …'s employment. Consistent with increased childcare obligations driving the observed gender gaps, we find that gaps were greatest …
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flattening returns to cognitive skills and growing returns to non-cognitive, "higher-order" skills such as teamwork. To …
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We study the forces driving polarization and higher wage inequality since 1980 using a structural model of occupation choice in the tradition of Roy (1951). In our model, changes in relative occupational skill prices proxy for changes in relative demand for occupational labor services. Our...
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participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. The author first highlights considerable progress on all dimensions … resumption of progress in narrowing gender gaps in these areas, concluding it is unlikely without policy intervention. She then … increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market …
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Reducing gender-specific commuting barriers in developing countries has complex and diverse effects on women's labor … findings highlight that alleviating commuting costs does not uniformly boost women's labor participation, as gender roles and …
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This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
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