Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change
发展中国家的非农就业性别差距集中在农村已婚女性,家庭内分工是关键。作者建立一般均衡模型并用中国2010年数据校准,发现性别劳动楔子解释约80%的差距,且家庭分工放大其影响。适合对性别差异和结构转型感兴趣的学者。
ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture. We develop a general equilibrium Roy model with joint household decisions, sector‐neutral gender labor wedges, and entry barriers. Calibrated to China in 2010, the model reproduces the observed gender employment gap. Gender labor wedges explain about 80% of it, amplified by within‐family specialization, while changing entry barriers account for its widening from 2000 to 2010.