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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy

Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper explains the narrowing of gender gaps in wages and market hours in recent decades by the growth of the service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a comparative advantage in the production of services in the market and at...

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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy

Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...

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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours …

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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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Gender segregation in employment contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

earnings. While wives of treated men do not seem to adjust their working time at either the intensive or extensive margins … with employers or changes in earnings, but involved instead a reduction in (unpaid) work involvement, whether within a … shown to have no detrimental impact on men’s (current) earnings. The estimated cross-hour effects are consistent with the …

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime …

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