Explaining Women's Success: Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work

By Sandra E. Black, Alexandra Spitz-Oener. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Can a Task-Based Approach Explain the Recent Changes in the German Wage Structure? (2009, background): “Manning (2004), Goos and Manning (2007), and Autor and 3In a recent study, Black and Spitz-Oener (2007) extend the task-based approach to analyze the change in the gender wage gap between 1979 and 1999.”
Gender Segregation in Occupations: The Role of Tipping and Social Interactions (2015, background): “Moreover, since women tend to be particularly well endowed in people skills, the increase in demand for these skills in non-routine interactive and analytical tasks may have favored women (Borghans, Ter Weel and Weinberg, 2008, Black and Spitz-Oener, 2010).”
The polarization of job opportunities in the U.S. labor market: implications for employment and earnings (2011, neutral): “See Black and Spitz-Oener (2010) for discussion.”
Has ICT Polarized Skill Demand? Evidence from Eleven Countries over Twenty-Five Years (2014, background): “For other related work, see Black and Spitz-Oener (2010) and Firpo, Fortin, and Lemieux (2011), and work surveyed by Acemoglu and Autor (2010).”
The Output Cost of Gender Discrimination: A Model-Based Macroeconomic Estimate (2008, neutral): “Black and Spitz-Oener (2007) document the decline in routine task inputs among women, with little change for men, which they find to explain a substantial fraction of the decrease in the gender wage gap. (15)A similar approach is used by Jones, Manuelli, and McGrattan (2003), who argue that the narr”
The Career Costs of Children (2017, neutral): “See also Gathmann and Schonberg (2010) and Black and Spitz-Oener (2010) for the development of similar indicators.”
International trade, the gender wage gap and female labor force participation (2014, background): “Black and Spitz-Oener (2010) also attribute the gender wage gap and its dynamics to differences in primary attributes between the genders.”
Putting Tasks to the Test: Human Capital, Job Tasks, and Wages (2013, neutral): “If the primary cost of schooling is forgone earnings and capital markets function efficiently, the Mincer model further predicts that the 7 Black and Spitz-Oener ð2010Þ analyze the relationship between job tasks and wages in West Germany.”
The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market (2017, background): “…have shown that narrowing gender employment and wage gaps can be explained by technological change that favors women - colloquially, that women have a comparative advantage in “brains” relative to “brawn” (Welch 2000, Bacolod and Blum 2010, Black and Spitz-Oener 2010, Beaudry and Lewis 2014).”