This paper investigates the effects of institutionalized gender inequality, proxied by a women's rights index, on the … migration choice I find non-linear effects of gender inequality on the female brain drain ratio as a result of effects of gender … inequality on both costs and benefits of migration. At low levels of women's rights, increases in the index lead to increases in …

, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a … lead to an increase in the labor supply of high skill women living in urban areas. In our model we show how large inflows … of low skill women migrants decrease the relative price of domestic services. The largest beneficiaries of this trend are …

We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980-2008 period is largely generated by women. Female employment … canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice … and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for …

Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines … per week) and skilled women's occupational choice. Exploiting variation across 215 occupations and four decades in the US … women with children working in that occupation. These findings are robust to controlling for the occupational distribution …