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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...

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Gendered Change : 150 Years of Transformation in US Hours

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Women's contribution to the economy has been markedly underestimated in predominantly agricultural societies, due to their widespread involvement in unpaid agricultural work. Combining data from the US Census and several early sources, we create a consistent measure of male and female employment...

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Gendered change : 150 years of transformation in US hours

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2024

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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2016

Women in developed economies have made major advancements in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This article documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours, and relative wages for a wide...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014124288

Changes in womenś hours of market work : the role of returns to experience

Olivetti, Claudia - In: Review of economic dynamics 9 (2006) 4, pp. 557-587

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Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women

Bertrand, Marianne; Cortés, Patricia; Olivetti, Claudia; … - 2016

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Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women

Bertrand, Marianne; Cortés, Patricia; Olivetti, Claudia; … - 2016

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Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women

Bertrand, Marianne; Cortés, Patricia; Olivetti, Claudia; … - 2016

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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …

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Who Married, (to) Whom, and Where? Trends in Marriage in the United States, 1850-1940

Olivetti, Claudia; Paserman, Daniele; Salisbury, Laura; … - 2021

We present new findings about the relationship between marriage and socioeconomic background in the United States in … socioeconomic gradient for women in the probability of marriage and the socioeconomic status of husbands. This socioeconomic … marriage, and almost all of the increase in marital sorting. Differences in urbanization rates and the share of foreign …

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