Greene, Michael; Hoffnar, Emily - In: Feminist Economics 1 (1995) 3, pp. 82-95
This paper compares earnings inequality between women and men in a growing sector of the U.S. economy - the service … sector, and a shrinking sector - manufacturing. We examine the hypothesis that deindustrialization will reduce inequality …, and find that the absolute magnitude of the gender earnings gap is, in fact, smaller in the service sector. Decomposition …
