%0 Report
        %A Ngai, L. Rachel
%A Petrongolo, Barbara
        %T Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8134
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8134
        %X This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand shift raising women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the observed trends.
        %K marketization
%K structural transformation
%K gender gaps