| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP17253 |
| DP17253 The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap: An Equilibrium Model | |
| Sonia Bhalotra; Manuel Fernández; Fan Wang | |
| 发表日期 | 2022-04-26 |
| 出版年 | 2022 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data from Mexico over a period during which women's participation increased by fifty percent. We provide new evidence that male and female labor are closer substitutes in high-paying analytical task-intensive occupations than in lower-paying manual and routine task-intensive occupations. We find that demand trends favored women, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of the distribution, alongside a narrowing at the top. On the supply side, we find that increased appliance availability was the key driver of increases in the participation of unskilled women, and fertility decline a key driver for skilled women. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace equilibrium impacts of growth in college attainment, which was more rapid among women, and of emigration, which was dominated by unskilled men. Our counterfactual estimates demonstrate that ignoring the countervailing effects of equilibrium wage adjustments on labor supplies, as is commonly done in the literature, can be misleading. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics |
| 关键词 | Female labor force participation Gender wage gap Technological change Supply-demand framework Task-based approach Wage distribution Wage inequality |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp17253 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/546264 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sonia Bhalotra,Manuel Fernández,Fan Wang. DP17253 The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap: An Equilibrium Model. 2022. |
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