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Title: Credit Market Competition and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Local Labor Markets

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: We exploit the exogenous variation in regional credit market contestability brought on by banking deregulation in the United States to study the narrowing of the gender gap in local labor markets. We find that deregulation reduced the gender gap in labor force participation, as the subsequent increase in the demand for labor induced non-working women to enter the labor force. Deregulation also reduced wage inequality as women became more likely to work in the private sector, to enter high-paid "male" jobs, and to acquire higher education. Tests of contiguous MSAs sharing a state border corroborate a genuine deregulation effect.

Url: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3001640

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Authors: Popov, Alexander, A; Zaharia, Sonia

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Publication Number: 2086

Institution: European Central Bank

Pages: 53

Publisher Location: Frankfurt, Germany

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Education, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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