Two Sides of the Same Coin: U.S. "Residual" Inequality and the Gender Gap

By Marigee Bacolod, Bernardo S. Blum. 2010

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies

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Is it better to invest in hard or soft skills? (2016, background): “Bacolod and Blum (2008) estimated wage returns to people skills, cognitive skills and motor skills.”
Multidimensional Skill Mismatch (2020, unknown): “(2006) also uses these two scores, and Bowles et al. (2001) review evidence on the influence of noncognitive abilities on earnings.”
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).”
Brain versus Brawn: The Realization of Women's Comparative Advantage (2010, background): “The main factor in improving women’s labor market opportunities, their potential wages, and their returns to education is the shift in labor factors away from brawn, as similarly suggested by Galor and Weil (1996) and supported by data evidence (see for example Bacolod and Blum, 2005). In doing so, ”
The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “…in demand shifts favorable to women coincided with the slowdown in gender wage convergence overall and in the unexplained gap obtained in 77 Bacolod and Blum (2010) present evidence that there has been an increase in the labor-market return to cognitive skills and a corresponding decrease…”
Skills in the city (2009, methodology): “Bacolod and Blum (2006) show in a time series analysis that increases in the prices of cognitive and people skills are an important part of the phenomenon.”
Do Male-Female Wage Differentials Reflect Differences in the Return to Skill? Cross-City Evidence from 1980-2000 (2014, unknown): “Bacolod and Blum (2010) show that the decline in wages motor skills-intensive jobs and the rise in wages cognitive skill-intensive jobs can account for one-quarter of the decline in the male-female wage gap.”
International trade, the gender wage gap and female labor force participation (2014, background): “Interestingly, Bacolod and Blum (2010) found that physical strength is required in 8 percent of the occupations of college graduates, 27 percent of high school graduates jobs and in 46 percent of jobs occupied by workers without a high school degree.”
People Skills and the Labor-Market Outcomes of Underrepresented Groups (2014, background): “Bacolod and Blum (2010) showed that increased demand for social skills contributed to the narrowing of the gender wage gap.”