This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent … rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

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 … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …

The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …

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 … shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes across skills and countries. We use a simple multi-sector framework to …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

Gender differences in self-confidence could explain women's under representation in high-income occupations and glass … cannot reject the hypothesis that gender differences in self-confidence are equal to zero. In addition, the estimated pooling …

In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. 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 …