Gender convergence in the labor market / edited by Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann.

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English
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First edition.
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Bingley, UK : Emerald, 2015.
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xiii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and women's wages and occupational structures have been converging. This volume contains new and innovative research on issues related to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender composition of top management and the role of parental leave policies. Among the questions answered are: Do the levels of and returns to human capital change over the last 50 years in the US? Can the shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) explain the division of labor in the home and the resulting wage gap? Does skill-biased technological change favor women's wages more than men's? Do care sector jobs incur a wage penalty? What impact does this have on firm and employee outcomes? Does the glass-ceiling faced by women in top management relate to fertility and parental leave policies and having children? And finally, are men and women complements or substitutes in the labor market?-- Provided by Publisher.
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    Contents
    • Convergences in men's and women's life patterns : lifetime work, lifetime earnings, and human capital investment / Joyce Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis and Mutlu Yuksel
    • A biological basis for the gender wage gap : fecundity and age and educational hypogamy / Solomon W. Polachek, Xu Zhang and Xing Zhou
    • Parental leave and the glass ceiling in Sweden / James Albrecht, Peter Skogman Thoursie and Susan Vroman
    • The family gap in career progression / Astrik Kunze
    • Common law marriage, labor supply, and time use : a partial explanation for gender convergence in labor supply / Shoshana Grossbard and Victoria Vernon
    • Skill disparities and unequal family outcomes / Shelly Lundberg
    • Who cares - and does it matter? : measuring wage penalties for caring work / Barry T. Hirsch and Julie Manzella
    • Gender complementarities in the labor market / Giacomo De Giorgi, Marco Paccagnella and Michele Pellizzari
    • The right tail and the right tale : the gender wage gap in Mexico / Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manual Fernández and Atheendar S. Venkataramani
    • The effect of female leadership on establishment and employee outcomes : evidence from linked employer-employee data / Stefano Gagliarducci and M. Daniele Paserman.
    ISBN
    • 1784414565
    • 9781784414566
    OCLC
    889525488
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