Institute of Comparative Economic Studies, Hosei University
Abstract
This paper investigates the impacts of firms’ technology choice on the cross-country variations in gender gaps, especially those of the wage and time devoted to home production which vary from country to country. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model with firms’ technology choice as well as home production.The term technology includes labor market institutions, corporate culture and so onthat would affect the labor productivity of each gender in different ways and reflectsthe relative labor abundance of each gender. The numerical results show that the cross-country variations in both gender wage and time gaps are considerably affected by thetechnology choice, suggesting the persistence of the gender gap; and that a convergence in the technology choice across countries does not imply smaller cross-country variations in all measure of the gender gaps
