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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we … relate data on task composition at work to occupation level estimates of probability of automation, controlling for a rich … workers are at a significantly higher risk for displacement by automation than male workers, with 11 percent of the female …
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known on how innovation in firms affects the gender wage gap. We show, using matched employer-employee data from Estonia … firm’s own R&D and innovation-related collaboration with external partners are, on average, associated with a larger gender … to men. The relationship between innovation and gender wage gap is stronger in the case of managers and plant and machine …
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Of the various approaches that, over the last few decades, have sought explanations for the constant increase in the wage gap between more and less skilled workers, the Skill-Biased Technological Change (SBTC) approach has been the most used and the one that has led to the most consistent...
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well as in reducing gender inequalities. We also conclude that each cluster has its specificities that justify the choice … made and that a slow reduction in gender wage inequality is observed in all clusters. …
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observed narrowing of the gender wage gap is entirely driven by declining gender wag gaps within, rather than between …, occupations. A decomposition exercise reveals that while explained factors have become more important contributors to the gender … gender wage gap. …
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physical tasks. These results suggest that ICT can lower gender inequality in the labor market by shifting the labor demand … interactive tasks, suggesting that gender differences in education may have limited female labor supply for the most innovative …
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returns to motor skills have dropped significantly, accounting for a major part of the narrowed gender wage gap from 1980 to … growth of women's cognitive and general skills compared to men's reduced the gender wage gap …
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