When Time Binds: Substitutes for Household Production, Returns to Working Long Hours, and the Skilled Gender Wage Gap

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Cortes, Patricia; Pan, Jessica
• 署名单位: Boston University; National University of Singapore; IZA Institute Labor Economics
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/700185
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 351-398
• 关键词: labor; CONVERGENCE; immigration; outcomes

摘要

We provide evidence that constraints that prevent highly skilled women from working long hours hinder gender pay equality. We show that relaxing one such constraint by increasing the supply of substitutes for household production-proxied by intercity variation in predicted low-skilled immigration-increases the relative earnings of women in occupations that disproportionately reward overwork. Low-skilled immigration inflows induce young women to enter occupations with higher returns to overwork and shift women toward higher quantiles of the male wage distribution. The share of women in the top decile remains unaffected, suggesting that other barriers prevent women from reaching the very top.