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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

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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Optimal Tax Progressivity: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

earnings risk. At the same time, progressivity reduces incentives to work and to invest in skills, and aggravates the …

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Two Views of Inequality Over the Life-Cycle

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Data on the life-cycle profiles of inequality in wages, earnings, hours worked and consumption contains precious …

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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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Insurance and Opportunities: The Welfare Implications of Rising Wage Dispersion

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper analyses the welfare effects of changes in cross-sectional wage dispersion, using a class of tractable heterogeneous-agent economies. We emphasize a trade-off in the welfare calculation that arises when labour supply is endogenous. On the one hand, as wage uncertainty rises, so does...

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The Cross-Sectional Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

-sectional distributions of hours worked, consumption and earnings. From 1967 to 1996 cross-sectional dispersion of earnings increased more …

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Consumption and Labour Supply with Partial Insurance: An Analytical Framework

Heathcote, Jonathan; Storesletten, Kjetil; Violante, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper develops an analytical framework to study consumption and labour supply in a rich class of heterogeneous-agent economies with partial insurance. The environment allows for trade in non-contingent and state-contingent bonds, for permanent and transitory idiosyncratic productivity...

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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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