TY  - JOUR
A1  - Karapanagiotis, Pantelis
A1  - Reimers, Paul
T1  - Why does the schooling gap close while the wage gap persists across country income comparisons?
T2  - Journal of economic dynamics and control
N2  - The schooling gap diminishes because the services sector becomes more pronounced for high-income countries, and the paid hours gap closes. Although gender wage inequality persists across country income groups, differences in schooling years between females and males diminish. We assemble a novel dataset, calibrate a general equilibrium, multi-sector, -gender, and -production technology model, and show that gender-specific sectoral comparative advantages explain the paid hours and schooling gap decline from low- to high-income economies even when the wage gap persists. Additionally, our counterfactual analyses indicate that consumption subsistence and production share heterogeneity across both income groups and genders are essential to explain the co-decline of the schooling and paid hours gaps. Our results highlight effective mechanisms for policies aiming to reduce gender inequality in schooling and suggest that the schooling gap decline and the de-invisibilization of female paid work observed in high-income countries are linked by structural sector movements instead of wage inequality reductions.
KW  - Development
KW  - Gender gaps
KW  - Labor
KW  - Education
KW  - Structural change
Y1  - 2024
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/82835
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-828351
SN  - 0165-1889
VL  - 159.2024
IS  - 104805
PB  - North-Holland Publ. Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -