TY  - SER
AU  - Ossa, Daniel
TI  - Gender Wage Gap, Wage-Productivity Decoupling, and the Rate of Profit
SN  - 0486-6134
PB  - Review of Radical Political Economics
KW  -  Gender Wage Gap
KW  -  Rate of Profit
KW  -  Wage-Productivity Decoupling
KW  - Income Distribution
N2  - The declining gender wage gap (GWG) and the wage-productivity decoupling (WPD) are two emerging phenomena for the United States since the 1980s. This article proposes an extension to the usual decomposition method of the profit rate to account for both the GWG and the WPD on aggregate income distribution. It then uses this framework to study the US manufacturing sector from 1960 to 2017. It suggests that gender wage inequality was a source of profitability, especially before 1986, but which was slowly petered out. Since 2001, increases in the profit share have mostly been due to the WPD. These results highlight the relevance of gender-based inequality in the more traditional analysis of the profit rate dynamics.JEL Classification: B51, E11, E25, J16
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/04866134231175177
ER  -