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Title: Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Author(s): Liwa Rachel Ngai and Barbara Petrongolo

Publication Date: May 2014

Keyword(s): gender gaps, marketization and structural transformation

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics and Labour Economics

Abstract: This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand shift raising women?s relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the observed trends.

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Ngai, L and Petrongolo, B. 2014. 'Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=9970