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posted on 2012-08-15, 00:00 authored by Daniel Felsenstein, Joseph DanielOver the last decade, the welfare evaluation of local economic development activities
has become increasingly sophisticated. Projected or realized gains have been broken
down by wage levels, household income levels, and race. However, relatively little
attention has been paid to the distribution of gains by gender. In parallel, the gender
literature has recognized the distribution of economic development activity by income
group but not by vacancies. We present an evaluation approach, the job chains model,
that combines the two. Occupations with a high proportion of women are identified and
isolated at each wage level. We estimate the proportion of job-chain vacancies induced
by new “female” jobs and their welfare impacts. We find that women are underrepresented in welfare gains associated with both male and female high wage jobs.
The applicability of our approach for evaluating alternative industrial targets is
demonstrated.
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