Changes in women's hours of market work: The role of returns to experience

Olivetti, Claudia

doi:10.1016/j.red.2006.06.001

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“…Olivetti (2006) estimates that the pronounced rise in the returns to actual labor market experience can account for about half of wage convergence in the US, and the bulk of the increase in working hours for married women. Accumulation of actual experience would lead to wage convergence both directly, via human capital accumulation, and indirectly, via changes in employers' beliefs and the decrease in statistical discrimination (Gayle and Golan, 2012).…”

Section: Gender Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Olivetti¹,

Petrongolo²

2016

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Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide cross-section of developed economies. It reviews existing work on the factors driving gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in the service share can explain at least half of the overall variation in female hours, both over time and across countries.

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Section: Gender Convergencementioning

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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Olivetti¹,

Petrongolo²

2016

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“…22 In principle, ν could be negative, implying that experience depreciates when women don't work. See Olivetti (2006) for a macroeconomic study of the importance of the return to experience for explaining female labor supply.constraint, which also includes the costs of having children, is given by:…”

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The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

Doepke¹,

Hazan²,

Maoz³

2007

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We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the rise in female labor supply during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor force participation decisions. We use the model to assess the impact of the war on female labor supply and fertility in the decades following the war. For the war generation of women, the high demand for female labor brought about by mobilization leads to an increase in labor supply that persists after the war. As a result, younger women who reach adulthood in the 1950s face increased labor market competition, which impels them to exit the labor market and start having children earlier. The effect is amplified by the rise in taxes necessary to pay down wartime government debt. In our calibrated model, the war generates a substantial baby boom followed by a baby bust.

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“…Most relevant to the gender-based discussion here, Olivetti (2006) shows that the substantial increase in US married women's hours of market work between 1970 and 1990 can mostly be explained by greater returns to labour market experience. Her estimates of the gender-specific human capital production function show that women's marginal returns to experience increased by twenty-five percent across the decades, compared with a six percent increase for men.…”

Section: Explanations Based On Specific Factorsmentioning

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On Why Gender Employment Equality in Britain Has Stalled Since the Early 1990s

2018

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Using over four decades of British micro data, this paper asks why progress in closing the gender employment rate gap has stalled since the early 1990s. We find that how partner characteristics affected women's likelihood of employment explain most of the gap's shift in trend. Instead, changes to the structure of employment both between and within industry sectors impacted the gap at approximately constant rates throughout the period. There is evidence that continuing improvements in women's employment when they had children or higher qualifications worked towards narrowing the gap, even after progress overall had stalled.

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Changes in women's hours of market work: The role of returns to experience

Cited by 194 publications

References 33 publications

The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

The Baby Boom and World War II: A Macroeconomic Analysis

On Why Gender Employment Equality in Britain Has Stalled Since the Early 1990s

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