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Title: Technological Change and the Gender Unemployment Gap

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: In the United States, the female unemployment rate had been considerably higher than the male unemployment rate since World War II. However, this gap disappeared after 1980. This article argues that the sudden and sustained decrease in gender unemployment gap was due to technological changes that a§ected skill demands and wages in certain male dominated occupations. To analyze this conjecture, we build a life-cycle search and matching model with endogenous job separation and heterogeneous experience levels. We Önd that the model can account for the observed decrease in gender unemployment gap, both at the aggregate level and by age.

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.447.1466&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Atesagaoglu, Orhan, E

Publisher: SUNY - Stony Brook

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

Countries: United States