Automation and Gender. Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap.

Autor/inn/en	Cortés, Patricia; Feng, Ying; Guida-Johnson, Nicolás; Pan, Jessica
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Automation and Gender. Implications for Occupational Segregation and the Gender Skill Gap.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2024) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w32030
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w32030
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Frau; Geschlechtsspezifischer Unterschied; Automatisierung; Diskriminierung; Sexismus; Beschäftigungseffekt; Lohnstruktur; Strukturwandel; Arbeitskraft; Qualifikation; Frauenbildung; Arbeitspapier; Wirkungsanalyse; USA
Abstract	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 than men to shift out of routine task-intensive occupations to high-skill, high wage occupations over the subsequent decade. The net effect is that initially routine-intensive local labor markets experienced greater occupational gender integration. College attainment among younger workers, particularly women, also rose significantly more in areas more exposed to automation. We propose a model of occupational choice with endogenous skill investments, where social skills and routine tasks are q-complements, and women have a comparative advantage in social skills, to explain the observed patterns. Supporting the model mechanisms, areas with greater exposure to automation experienced a greater movement of women into occupations with high social skill (and high cognitive) requirements than men.
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Update	2024/1