Women in the Labor Market / Cynthia B. Lloyd, Emily S. Andrews, Curtis L. Gilroy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrews, Emily S., editor.

Gilroy, Curtis L., editor.

Lloyd, Cynthia B., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1979]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Examines the role of women in the labor market in five categories; household decision making, labor supply projections, occupational choices, wage differentials, and equal employment policy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Contributors

Introduction / Lloyd, Cynthia B. / Andrews, Emily S. / Gilroy, Curtis L.

Part One. Household Decision-Making and Labor Supply

1. Bargaining Analyses of Household Decisions / Manser, Marilyn / Brown, Murray

2. Comment / Gordon, Nancy M.

3. Comment / Ashenfelter, Orley

Part Two. Labor Supply Projections

4. Projecting the Size of the Female Labor Force: What Makes a Difference? / Smith, Ralph E.

5. New Evidence on the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply / Heckman, James J.

6. Comment / Cain, Glen G.

7. Comment / Barrett, Nancy Smith

Part Three. Career Decisions

8. Career Decisions and Labor Force Participation of Married Women / Stephan, Paula E. / Schroeder, Larry D.

9. Occupational Segregation Among Women: Theory, Evidence, and a Prognosis / Polachek, Soloman William

10. Comment / Madden, Janice Fanning

11. Comment / Welch, Finis

Part Four. Wage Differentials

12. The Convergence to Racial Equality in Women's Wages / Smith, James P.

13. Work Experience, Labor Force Withdrawals, and Women's Wages: Empirical Results Using the 1976 Panel of Income Dynamics / Corcoran, Mary E.

14. An Evaluation of Sex Discrimination: Some Problems and a Suggested Reorientation / Chiplin, Brian

15. Comment / Strober, Myra H.

16. Comment / Mincer, Jacob

Part Five. EEO: Training and Affirmative Action

17. Training Programs and the Employment and Earnings of Black Women / Kiefer, Nicholas M.

18. The Impact of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws on the Male-Female Earnings Differential / Beller, Andrea H.

19. Male-Female Wage Differentials: Has the Government had any Effect? / Lazear, Edward

20. Comment / Sawhill, Isabel V.

21. Comment / Wallace, Phyllis A.

22. Comment / Killingsworth, Mark R.

23. Reply to Killingsworth / Lazear, Edward

Bibliography

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-89979-3

OCLC:

1100436177