Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
通过直接衡量工作任务，分析了西德女性在非程序性分析和互动任务上的相对增长，以及程序性任务的显著减少，发现技术变革是缩小性别工资差距的重要因素。
In this study, we explore a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct measures of job tasks and gives a comprehensive characterization of how work for men and women has changed in recent decades. Using data from West Germany, we find that women have witnessed relative increases in nonroutine analytic and interactive tasks. The most notable difference between the genders is, however, the pronounced relative decline in routine task inputs among women, driven, at least in part, by technological change. These changes explain a substantial fraction of the closing of the gender wage gap. © 2010 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.