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Sectoral Changes And The Increase In Women's Labor Force Participation, Rahşan Akbulut
Sectoral Changes And The Increase In Women's Labor Force Participation, Rahşan Akbulut
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Throughout the second half of the 20th century, women in the United States decided to move increasingly into the labor market. This paper investigates the growth of the service sector as an explanation for the increase in women's employment. It develops an economic model that can account for the increase in women's employment and the growth of the service sector at the same time. A growth model with two sectors and a home production technology is constructed in order to quantitatively assess the contribution of sectoral productivity differences to the change in women's employment decision. The sectoral productivities are taken …