Automation and gender: implications for occupational segregation and the gender skill gap
We examine the differential effects of automation on the labor market and educational outcomes of women relative to men over the past four decades. Although women were disproportionately employed in occupations with a high risk of automation in 1980, they were more likely to shift to high-skill, high-wage occupations than men in over time. We provide a causal link by exploiting variation in local labor market exposure to automation attributable to historical differences in local industry structure. For a given change in the exposure to automation across commuting zones, women were more likely ... Show more
Authors: Cortes, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolas; Pan, Jessica
Published: Bonn, Germany, IZA, 2023
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 64 p.
Access item: https://www.iza.org/en/publications/dp/16695/automation-and-gender-implications-for-occupational-segregation-and-the-gender-skill-gap
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