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| Type | Working Paper |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | The role of gender in employment polarization |
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| Institution | University of Zurich |
| Series Name | Working paper series / Department of Economics |
| Number | 250 |
| ISSN | 1664-7041 |
| Number of Pages | 41 |
| Date | 2017 |
| Abstract Text | We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980-2008 period is largely generated by women. Female employment shares increase both at the bottom and at the top of the skill distribution, generating the typical U-shape polarization graph, while male employment shares decrease in a more similar fashion along the whole skill distribution. We show that a canonical model of skill-biased technological change augmented with a gender dimension, an endogenous market/home labor choice and a multi-sector environment accounts well for gender and overall employment polarization. The model also accounts for the absence of employment polarization during the 1960- 1980 period and broadly reproduces the different evolution of employment shares across decades during the 1980-2008 period. The faster growth of skill-biased technological change since the 1980s accounts for most of the employment polarization generated by the model. |
| Official URL | http://www.econ.uzh.ch/static/wp/econwp250.pdf |
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| Keywords | Job polarization, gender, skill-biased technological change, home production, Technischer Fortschritt, Beschäftigung, Polarisierung, Geschlechtsunterschied, Binnenmarkt, USA |