Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … rather than wages, at odds with the quantitative predictions of the canonical search model - even if wages are only … reservation wages, and consider an alternative reservation wage model based on reference dependence in job search. This extension …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand …

. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …, which is also closely related to the polarization of female employment and to the geographic distribution of jobs, which is …