[PDF] Womens Chaning Participation In The Labor Force eBook

Author : T. Paul Schultz
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 23,39 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Labor supply
ISBN :

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Research has rarely tested the proposition that women have lost more than men when low- income countries introduce minimum wage legislation and certain other labor market regulations that raise the cost of labor to firms compared with families. But such interventions in the labor market may slow women's transition from nonmarket and family work to employment by firms. And that may affect the rate and structure of economic growth.

Author : Claudia Goldin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 022653264X

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Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today’s older American women work full-time jobs at greater rates than women in other developed countries. In Women Working Longer, editors Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz assemble new research that presents fresh insights on the phenomenon of working longer. Their findings suggest that education and work experience earlier in life are connected to women’s later-in-life work. Other contributors to the volume investigate additional factors that may play a role in late-life labor supply, such as marital disruption, household finances, and access to retirement benefits. A pioneering study of recent trends in older women’s labor force participation, this collection offers insights valuable to a wide array of social scientists, employers, and policy makers.

Author : Orley Ashenfelter
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1999-11-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780444501899

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A guide to the continually evolving field of labour economics.

Author : Raquel Fernandez (Ph.D.)
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 33,22 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Experiential learning
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Married women's labor force participation has increased dramatically over the last century. Why this has occurred has been the subject of much debate. This paper investigates the role of culture as learning in this change. To do so, it develops a dynamic model of culture in which individuals hold heterogeneous beliefs regarding the relative long-run payoffs for women who work in the market versus the home. These beliefs evolve rationally via an intergenerational learning process. Women are assumed to learn about the long-term payoffs of working by observing (noisy) private and public signals. They then make a work decision. This process generically generates an S-shaped figure for female labor force participation, which is what is found in the data. The S shape results from the dynamics of learning. I calibrate the model to several key statistics and show that it does a good job in replicating the quantitative evolution of female LFP in the US over the last 120 years. The model highlights a new dynamic role for changes in wages via their effect on intergenerational learning. The calibration shows that this role was quantitatively important in several decades.