This paper studies the impact of services liberalization on education and the gender education gap at the district … number of years of schooling (positively) and the gender education gap (negatively). These effects are at least as relevant …

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 …

gender earnings gap in the urban People's Republic of China (PRC). The descriptive analyses show that the service economy … hires more workers and pays more than the industrial sector on average; meanwhile the female employment share and gender …, the decomposition analyses illustrate that the composition effect is only about 10% of the total gender gap, and that the …

The paper compares the gender wage differentials of two occupation groups - innovation and non-innovation workers … unconditional quantile regression techniques to identify key factors underlying the gender wage gaps observed along the whole wage … insights. We find conspicuous differences in average gender wage gaps, in gender wage-gap profiles across the wage distribution …