Arbeitspapier
It's a woman's world? Occupational structure and the rise of female employment in Germany
We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do so by examining which task groups and occupations drive the increase in the female share and how this is related to women's wages. Our findings show that the share of women indeed rises most strongly in non-routine occupations requiring strong social and cognitive skills. While the female share in high-paid occupations increases over time, the share of women in the upper parts of the overall wage distribution rises much less which implies significant within-occupation gender wage gaps.
- ISBN
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978-3-96973-028-7
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 889
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Thema
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Female labour market participation
occupations
tasks
technological progress
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Bachmann, Ronald
Stepanyan, Gayane
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
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Essen
- (wann)
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.4419/969730287
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:46 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Bachmann, Ronald
- Stepanyan, Gayane
- RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Entstanden
- 2020
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