service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a comparative … structural transformation and marketization of home services, acts as a gender-biased demand shift and leads to a rise in women … women’s relative wage and market hours and the fall in men’s market hours. …

goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The … shift raising women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the …

less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by reducing their labor supply by about half an hour, consistent with …. Women's response to their husband's treatment is instead weak and rarely statistically significant, possibly due to heavier …

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

In 2003, women working part-time in the UK earned, on average, 22% less than women working full-time. Compared to women … who work FT, PT women are more likely to have low levels of education, to be in a couple, to have young and numerous … of these differences, the PT penalty for identical women doing the same job is estimated to be about 10% if one does not …