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 …

In the last decades the US economy experienced a rise in female labor force participation, a reversal of the gender … education gap and a closing of the gender wage gap. Importantly, these changes occurred at a substantially different pace over …. Given the observed US technical change process, the model replicates (1) over half of the narrowing gender wage gap, (2 …

In the last decades, the US has seen narrowing gender employment, wage, and education gaps. The labor market has also …-college occupations, and (2) women have less brawn than men. Skill requirements provide the micro foundation for gender … reversal of the gender education gap and three-quarters of the closing wage gap. …