Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy
研究了服务业崛起如何缩小美国男女在工时和工资上的差距，通过模型揭示女性在服务生产中的比较优势是关键驱动因素。
This paper investigates the role of the rise in services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We highlight the between-industry component of differential gender trends for the United States and propose a model economy with goods, services, and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing services. The rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, raises women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the observed trends in women's hours and relative wages.