An equilibrium analysis of the gender wage gap
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An equilibrium analysis of the gender wage gap
Within a two-sector general equilibrium model, women’s productivity in the marketplace decreases with the amount of household work they perform at home. Assuming that men’s and women’s household labour inputs are complementary here we prove the existence of multiple equilibria. In some, men and women allocate their labour equally and earn identical wages. In others, they allocate labour differe...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Labour Review
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0020-7780,1564-913X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1564-913x.2008.00038.x