Women at work : an economic perspective /
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
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| Description: | xiii, 278 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5712785 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction. More Women at Work in Europe
- Part I. Women in the Labor Force: How Well is Europe Doing?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Women's Employment Patterns: Some Facts
- 2.1. Women's role in overall employment growth
- 3. Explanations behind Women's Employment Patterns
- 3.1. The rise of female employment: a brief review of explanations
- 3.2. Explaining cross-country differences
- 4. Job Segregation
- 4.1. The data
- 4.2. Who holds atypical jobs?
- 4.3. Preferences for atypical jobs
- 4.4. Wages in atypical jobs
- 4.5. Conclusions
- 5. Wage Gaps
- 5.1. The evolution of the gender wage gap in the US
- 5.2. Cross-country evidence on the gender wage gap
- 5.3. Explaining the cross-country evidence on the gender wage gap
- 5.4. The importance of sample selection
- 5.5. Cross-country institutional differences and the gender wage gap
- 5.6. Conclusions
- 6. Rising Female Participation: The Consequences for Other Workers
- 6.1. What do we know?
- 6.2. Measuring experience in the labor market
- 6.3. Measuring crowding-out in the youth labor market
- 6.4. Conclusions
- 7. What Policy Should Do
- Comments
- References
- Part II. Women's Participation in the Labor Market and Fertility: The Effects of Social Policies
- Introduction
- 8. Labor Supply and Fertility in Europe and the US
- 8.1. Fertility and labor supply: their relationship
- 8.2. Temporal patterns and cross-country differences
- 8.3. The characteristics of the labor market
- 8.4. From maternity to parental leave
- 8.5. Childcare systems
- 8.6. Child benefits
- 8.7. Family patterns and family structure
- 8.8. Comparing the effects of social policies
- 8.9. Participation and fertility decisions: empirical results from ECHP
- 8.10. Conclusions
- Appendix 8.A.
- Appendix 8.B.
- 9. Parental Employment and Children's Welfare
- 9.1. Parental employment and children's wellbeing: relationship concerns
- 9.2. The impact of parental employment on children's wellbeing: measuring and evaluating the effects
- 9.3. A selective review of results
- 9.3.1. Cognitive development and early childhood outcomes
- 9.3.2. Educational attainment
- 9.3.3. Other outcomes
- 9.3.4. Summary of results and discussion
- 9.4. The importance of other family processes and decisions during childhood
- 9.4.1. Family income
- 9.4.2. Parental joblessness and financial difficulty
- 9.4.3. Parental education
- 9.4.4. Lone parenthood
- 9.5. Conclusions
- 10. Changes in Labor Market Participation and Family Income Distribution
- 10.1. How do women's and men's work affect income distribution?
- 10.2. Dual-earner and single-earner households
- 10.3. Inequality in women's and men's earnings distribution
- 10.4. Intra-household income distribution
- 10.5. Conclusions
- 11. Taxes, Transfers, Labor Supply and Household Welfare
- 11.1. Motivations for studying labor supply and taxation
- 11.2. Some evidence in Europe and the US
- 11.3. Fiscal and social policies: modeling the behavioral responses
- 11.4. Measuring social welfare: efficiency and equality
- 11.5. Thinking about tax system reforms: an exercise for Italy
- 11.5.1. Comparing three reform proposals
- 11.5.2. Looking for the best
- 11.5.3. The reforms and female participation and fertility
- Appendix 11.A. Modeling household labor supply
- Appendix 11.B
- Social welfare functions
- Equality of opportunity as a benchmark for evaluation of social policy
- 12. What Policy Should Do
- Comments
- References
- Final Remarks
- Women in the labor market and in the Lisbon strategy
- A jobless and childless Europe?