Shirai, Daichi and Nagamachi, Kohei and Eguchi, Naotaka (2012): The Impacts of Firms' Technology Choice on the Gender Differences in Wage and Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis.
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This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps---particularly those variations in the wages and time devoted to home production. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model that includes firm technology choice and home production. The numerical results reveal that the cross-country variations in both the wage and time gender gaps are substantially affected by technology choice---which suggests the persistence of the gender gap---and that a convergence in the technology choice across countries does not imply smaller cross-country variations in all gender gap--related measures.
Item Type: | MPRA Paper |
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Original Title: | The Impacts of Firms' Technology Choice on the Gender Differences in Wage and Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis |
Language: | English |
Keywords: | appropriate technology choice, gender wage gap, home production |
Subjects: | D - Microeconomics > D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics > D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation D - Microeconomics > D5 - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium > D58 - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E1 - General Aggregative Models > E13 - Neoclassical E - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics > E2 - Consumption, Saving, Production, Investment, Labor Markets, and Informal Economy > E24 - Employment ; Unemployment ; Wages ; Intergenerational Income Distribution ; Aggregate Human Capital ; Aggregate Labor Productivity J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J1 - Demographic Economics > J16 - Economics of Gender ; Non-labor Discrimination J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J2 - Demand and Supply of Labor > J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply |
Item ID: | 56666 |
Depositing User: | Daichi Shirai |
Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2014 23:43 |
Last Modified: | 28 Sep 2019 20:20 |
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URI: | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/id/eprint/56666 |