TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Ngai, L. Rachel
AU  - Petrongolo, Barbara
        TI  - Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
        PY  - 2014/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8134
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8134
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - marketization
KW  - structural transformation
KW  - gender gaps
        ER  -