Home production, market production and the gender wage gap: Incentives and expectations

被引:67
作者
Albanesi, Stefania [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Olivetti, Claudia [4 ]
机构
[1] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[3] CEPR, London, England
[4] Boston Univ, Boston, MA 02215 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Gender wage gap; Statistical discrimination; Private information; Labor contracts; Home production;
D O I
10.1016/j.red.2008.08.001
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We study the joint determination of gender differences in labor earnings and time devoted to home production in an economy where informational frictions give rise to incentive problems in the labor market. Our model generates novel predictions on the relation between earnings, home hours and the incidence of performance pay, which we confront with the data. The empirical evidence broadly supports our hypothesis. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:80 / 107
页数:28
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