02292cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF022499 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9798400202384 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Dabla-Norris, Era. Are Low-Skill Women Being Left Behind? : Labor Market Evidence from the UK / Era Dabla-Norris, Carlo Pizzinelli, Jay Rappaport. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (48 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all occupations. We find that falling returns to labor rather than job polarization has been a key driver of rising inter-age wage inequality among low-skill females. Wage-level cohort effects underpin a nearly 10 percent fall in expected lifetime earnings for low-skill women born in 1990 relative to those born in 1970. Mode of access: Internet Human Capital imf Labor Force, Employment, Size and Structure imf Labor Productivity imf Occupational Choice imf Skills imf Pizzinelli, Carlo. Rappaport, Jay. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/042 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2022/042/001.2022.issue-042-en.xml IMF e-Library