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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The "end of men" and rise of women in the high-skilled labor market
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Authors
  • Guido Matias Cortes
  • Nir Jaimovich
  • Henry Siu
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name NBER Working Papers
Number 24274
Number of Pages 61
Date 2018
Abstract Text We document a new finding regarding changes in labor market outcomes for high-skilled men and women in the US. Since 1980, conditional on being a college-educated man, the probability of working in a cognitive/high-wage occupation has fallen. This contrasts starkly with the experience for college-educated women: their probability of working in these occupations rose, despite a much larger increase in the supply of educated women relative to men. We show that one key channel capable of rationalizing these findings is a greater increase in the demand for female-oriented skills in cognitive/high-wage occupations relative to other occupations. Using occupation-level data, we find evidence that this relative increase in the demand for female skills is due to an increasing importance of social skills within such occupations. Evidence from both male and female wages is also indicative of an increase in the demand for social skills. Finally, we document how these patterns change across the early and latter portions of the period.
Official URL https://www.nber.org/papers/w24274
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Digital Object Identifier 10.3386/w24274
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Additional Information Auch erschienen als CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13323