@article{a7cf5b2355d14cbfac67e7946bf3e569,
title = "The role of gender in employment polarization",
abstract = "We document that U.S. employment polarization in the 1980–2017 period is largely generated by women. In addition, we provide evidence that the increase of employment shares at the bottom of the skill distribution is generated in market sectors producing services representing home production substitutes. We use a calibrated macroeconomic model to show that a rising skill premium induces high-skilled women to participate more in the labor market, reduce home working hours, and demand more home substitutes in the market, thus fostering a rise in employment shares at the bottom of the skill distribution. Counterfactual experiments suggest that without the large increase in the skill premium of high-skilled women, employment polarization would have been substantially reduced, and changes of employment shares at the bottom of the distribution would have been negative.",
author = "Fabio Cerina and Alessio Moro and Michelle Rendall",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the editor Dirk Krueger, several referees, David Autor, Vasco Carvalho, Luigi Guiso, Nezih Guner, Moshe Hazan, Esteban Jaimovich, Vahagn Jerbhasian, Omar Licandro, Rachel Ngai, Galo Nu{\~n}o, Barbara Petrongolo, Chris Pissarides, Xavier Raurich, Andrew Rendall, Christian Siegel, Kjetil Storesletten, Satoshi Tanaka, Marc Teigner, Montserrat Vilalta, Carlo Valdes, Fabrizio Zilibotti and seminar participants at LSE, UB, Bamberg, Cambridge, Copenhagen, Monash, National University of Singapore, New South Wales, Zurich, OECD, 2017 Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory, CEPR/Bank of Italy “Labour market participation: Forces at work and policy challenges” (Rome), CEPR Macroeconomics and Growth Programme (LBS), Barcelona GSE Summer Forum 2016, II MadMac Conference in Growth and Development (Madrid), V Workshop on Structural Transformation and Macroeconomic Dynamics (Kent), 2016 RIDGE December Forums in Buenos Aires, Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro, 3rd Workshop of the Australasian Macroeconomic Society (Brisbane), SIE (Bocconi), SAEe (Bilbao), Second Marco Fanno Alumni Workshop (Milan), and VII Workshop IIBEO (Alghero) for the useful comments. Moro thanks the Region of Sardinia for financial support, research grant F72F16002980002. Finally, we thank Sara Pau for excellent research assistance. The usual disclaimers apply. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021 The Authors. International Economic Review published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and the Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association. Copyright: Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2021",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1111/iere.12531",
language = "English",
volume = "62",
pages = "1655--1691",
journal = "International Economic Review",
issn = "0020-6598",
publisher = "Wiley-Blackwell",
number = "4",
}