[PDF] The Female Labor Force In The United States eBook

Author : Leah Platt Boustan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022616389X

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This volume honours the contributions Claudia Goldin has made to scholarship and teaching in economic history and labour economics. The chapters address some closely integrated issues: the role of human capital in the long-term development of the American economy, trends in fertility and marriage, and women's participation in economic change.

Author : Jennifer L. Solotaroff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1464810680

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Sri Lanka has shown remarkable persistence in low female labor force participation rates—at 36 percent from 2015 to 2017, compared with 75 percent for same-aged men—despite overall economic growth and poverty reduction over the past decade. The trend stands in contrast to the country’s achievements in human capital development that favor women, such as high levels of female education and low total fertility rates, as well as its status as an upper-middle-income country. This study intends to better understand the puzzle of women’s poor labor market outcomes in Sri Lanka. Using nationally representative secondary survey data—as well as primary qualitative and quantitative research—it tests three hypotheses that would explain gender gaps in labor market outcomes: (1) household roles and responsibilities, which fall disproportionately on women, and the associated sociophysical constraints on women’s mobility; (2) a human capital mismatch, whereby women are not acquiring the proper skills demanded by job markets; and (3) gender discrimination in job search, hiring, and promotion processes. Further, the analysis provides a comparison of women’s experience of the labor market between the years leading up to the end of Sri Lanka’s civil war (2006†“09) and the years following the civil war (2010†“15). The study recommends priority areas for addressing the multiple supply- and demand-side factors to improve women’s labor force participation rates and reduce other gender gaps in labor market outcomes. It also offers specific recommendations for improving women’s participation in the five private sector industries covered by the primary research: commercial agriculture, garments, tourism, information and communication technology, and tea estate work. The findings are intended to influence policy makers, educators, and employment program practitioners with a stake in helping Sri Lanka achieve its vision of inclusive and sustainable job creation and economic growth. The study also aims to contribute to the work of research institutions and civil society in identifying the most effective means of engaging more women— and their untapped potential for labor, innovation, and productivity—in Sri Lanka’s future.

Author : Lynn Y. Weiner
Publisher : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 28,23 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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In this fresh perspective on one of the major demographic trends in our history, Weiner skillfully interweaves evidence on women's employment, government social policy, and the contemporary debate about women's sphere to explore the interconnections between patterns of women's work and the ideologies that arose in response to that work. In uniting the sources and methods of social and intellectual history, the author illuminates the changes in women's lives during the past 250 years. Originally published in 1985. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

Author : Ann Foote Cahn
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780030456466

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Monograph on labour force participation of woman workers in the USA with special emphasis on overcoming underemployment and obstacles to equal opportunity - comments on legislation against sex discrimination, analyses the relationship between homemaker's role and employment and discusses measures (child care facilities, part time employment, vocational training, income tax, social security, etc.), designed to factually support women's rights to gainful employment. References and statistical tables.

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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,67 MB
Release : 1970
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Social research study of the increasing labour force participation of the woman worker in the USA during the period from 1900 to 1960 - covers historical aspects, demographic aspects and sociological aspects of labour demand and supply of women, psychological aspects of participation (incl. Discrimination in employment), labour mobility, the occupational structure, trends, etc. Bibliography pp. 191 to 197 and statistical tables.

Author : Alice Kessler-Harris
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2003-01-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195157095

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Death, for bacteria, is not inevitable. Protect a bacterium from predators, and provide it with adequate food and space to grow, and it would continue living--and reproducing asexually--forever. But a paramecium (a slightly more advanced single-cell organism), under the same ideal conditions, would stop dividing after about 200 generations--and die. Death, for paramecia and their offspring, is inevitable. Unless they have sex ... In Sex and the Origins of Death, William Clark ranges far and wide over fascinating terrain. Whether describing a 62-year-old man having a ma.