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The economics of women, men, and work
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- Creator
- Francine D. Blau, Marianne A. Ferber, Anne E. Winkler
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- Language
- English
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- Fifth edition
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, [2006]
- ©2006
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- xx, 444 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0131851543, 9780131851542
- OCLC
- ocm58042914
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 1. Introduction -- What economics is about -- Uses of economic theory -- The scope of economics -- Individuals, families, and households -- A note on terminology -- Outline of the book -- Appendix. A review of supply and demand in the labor market -- Questions for review and discussion -- 2. Women and men : changing roles in a changing economy -- The nature of males and females -- The role of sociobiology in explaining gender differences -- Factors influencing women's relative status -- Women's roles and economic development -- The U.S. experience -- The preindustrial period -- Industrialization -- Industrialization and the evolution of the family -- Women in the labor market -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings -- 3. The family as an economic unit -- The simple neoclassical model : specialization and exchange -- Comparative advantage -- Specialization and exchange : numerical examples -- Gains to specialization and exchange -- Other advantages of families -- Economies of scale -- Public goods -- Externalities in consumption -- Marriage-specific investments -- Risk pooling -- Institutional advantages -- Disadvantages of specialization -- Sharing of housework -- Life cycle changes -- Costs of interdependence -- Tastes and bargaining power -- Domestic violence -- Disadvantages of specialization : a summary -- Transaction cost and bargaining approaches -- Marxist and radical feminist views of the family -- Nonmarket work -- Housework -- Volunteer work -- Estimating the value of nonmarket production -- The American family in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Specialization and exchange : a graphical analysis -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings --
- 4. The allocation of time between the household and the labor market -- The labor force : some definitions -- Trends in labor force participation -- Trends in labor force attachment -- Trends in hours worked -- The labor supply decision -- The budget constraint -- Indifference curves -- The participation decision -- The value of nonmarket time (w*) -- The value of market time (w) -- The hours decision -- Empirical evidence on income and substitution effects -- Economic conditions -- Some applications of the theory : taxes, child care costs, and labor supply -- Analyzing trends in women's participation : an overview -- Factors influencing the value of market time (w) -- Factors influencing the value of nonmarket time (w*) -- The World War II experience -- The post-World War II baby boom -- The 1960s to the 1980s : increased participation of married mothers -- The 1990s and early 2000s : diverging participation trends for married and single mothers -- Analyzing trends in men's participation -- Black and white participation differentials : a closer look -- Conclusion -- Appendix. The income and substitution effects : a closer look -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings -- 5. Differences in occupations and earnings : overview -- Occupational differences -- Occupational segregation -- Hierarchies within occupations -- Evaluating the extent of occupational segregation -- Trends in occupational segregation -- Female-male earnings ratio -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion --
- 6. Differences in occupations and earnings : the human capital model -- What is human capital? -- Gender differences in educational attainment -- The educational investment decision -- Education and productivity -- Gender differences in educational investment decisions : the human capital analysis -- Expected work life -- Gender differences in educational investment decisions : other factors -- Socialization -- Gender-appropriate traits and competencies -- Biased evaluations -- Discrimination by educational institutions -- Subtle barriers -- Policy issue : the role of government in combating discrimination in educational institutions -- Explaining women's rising educational attainment -- On-the-job training -- Gender differences in labor market experience -- The on-the-job training investment decision -- General training -- Firm-specific training -- Experience and productivity -- Gender differences in training investment decisions -- Expected work life -- Discrimination -- Occupations and earnings -- Other supply-side factors -- The human capital explanation : an assessment -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings -- 7. Differences in occupations and earnings : the role of labor market discrimination -- Labor market discrimination : a definition -- Empirical evidence of labor market discrimination -- Earnings differences -- Occupational differences -- Models of labor market discrimination -- Tastes for discrimination -- Statistical discrimination -- The overcrowding model -- Institutional models -- Feedback effects -- Policy issue : the government and equal employment opportunity -- Equal employment opportunity laws and regulations -- Effectiveness of the government's antidiscrimination effort -- Affirmative action -- Comparable worth -- Conclusion -- Appendix. Regression analysis and empirical estimates of labor market discrimination -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings --
- 8. Recent developments in the labor market : their impact on women and men -- Trends in female and male wages -- The declining gender pay gap -- Determinants of trends in the gender pay gap -- Empirical results for the 1980s -- Empirical results for the 1990s -- The rising payoff to education -- Changing labor market dynamics -- The high-churning U.S. labor market -- Unemployment -- Other indicators of employment problems -- Trends in the gender difference in unemployment -- Future labor market prospects -- The rise of the nonstandard workforce -- Definition and characteristics of the nonstandard workforce -- Explanations behind the rise of nonstandard workers -- Consequences for workers and their families -- The growth in women's self-employment -- The changing face of labor unions -- Trends in labor union membership -- Benefits of union membership for workers and the impact of deunionization -- Reasons for the historic underrepresentation of women in unions -- The glass ceiling in union leadership -- Prospects for women in unions -- Conclusion - Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings -- 9. Changing work roles and the family -- Economic explanations for family formation -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Cohabitation : opposite-sex, unmarried couples -- Cohabitation : gay and lesbian couples -- Fertility -- Changing family structure and economic well-being -- Dual-earner families -- Maternal employment and children's outcomes -- Single-parent families -- Family structure and children's outcomes -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings --
- 10. Policies affecting paid work and family -- Policies to alleviate poverty -- AFDC : our former welfare program -- The iron triangle of welfare -- Employment strategies -- TANF : our current welfare program -- The earned income tax credit -- Child support enforcement -- Taxes, specialization, and marriage -- Income taxation policy -- The Social Security system -- The competing demands of work and family -- Who is responsible for children? -- Family-friendly policies -- Family leave -- Child care -- Alternative work schedules -- Flexible benefits -- Policies to assist couples -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings -- 11. Gender differences in other countries -- The economic status of the world's women : overview -- Labor force participation -- Occupations -- Earnings -- Educational attainment -- Fertility -- Housework -- Women's role in government and their standing before the law -- Interpretations and implications -- A comparison of the United States to other economically advanced countries -- Labor force participation -- Occupations -- The gender-wage gap -- Demographic trends -- Housework -- Summary on economically advanced countries -- Developing countries -- Education as the pathway to empowerment -- Fertility and population control -- Child labor -- Microcredit for women : lifeline or mirage? -- Summary on women in developing countries -- Countries of the former Soviet bloc -- Conclusion -- Questions for review and discussion -- Suggested readings