Last week, I published a video on the main lessons I learned from reading Claudia Goldin's Career and Family. I mostly focused on the explanations for the gender wage gap. Goldin's claim is that the gap is driven primarily by career choices, then by occupation. Think of occupation as "doctor vs teacher" and career as "pediatrician vs surgeon."
Regarding the third suggestion from the end of the video that we make flexible work more productive: doesn’t the incentive to do so generally exist? Even so, if the size of the labor force is unchanged in flexible work, won’t the equilibrium wage persist?
Regarding the second suggestion at the end of the video is that more men might take more flexible work, suppose this happens and now we have such an even mix of gender and Greedy-Flexible work arrangements that we can no longer see a gender pay gap. Now the gender pay gap is statistically eliminated but wouldn’t a pay gap still exist?
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Regarding the third suggestion from the end of the video that we make flexible work more productive: doesn’t the incentive to do so generally exist? Even so, if the size of the labor force is unchanged in flexible work, won’t the equilibrium wage persist?
Regarding the second suggestion at the end of the video is that more men might take more flexible work, suppose this happens and now we have such an even mix of gender and Greedy-Flexible work arrangements that we can no longer see a gender pay gap. Now the gender pay gap is statistically eliminated but wouldn’t a pay gap still exist?