Umfang:
1 online resource (293 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780199281879
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9780191535994
Serie:
Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series
Inhalt:
Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater particiption of women in labour markets. It addresses the trade-offs involved in increasing participation of women in paid employment, setting out a better informed policy debate about these issues, and paving the way to realistic targets and ways to achieve them
Anmerkung:
Intro -- 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.
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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 -- 9.4 The importance of other family processes and decisions during childhood -- 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 -- Appendix 11.A: Modeling household labor supply -- Appendix 11.B: Social welfare functions -- 12 What Policy Should Do -- Comments -- References -- Final Remarks -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Boeri, Tito Women at Work Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2005 ISBN 9780199281879
Sprache:
Englisch
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