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The Economics of women and work / edited by Alice H. Amsden.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 1980.Description: 409 p. : graphs ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0312236700
  • 0312236719 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 331.4
LOC classification:
  • HD6053 .E26 1980
Contents:
Part one. Market work, homework and the family -- Labor force participation of married women : a study of labor supply / Jacob Mincer -- A theory of the allocation of time / Gary Becker -- Time spent in housework / Joann Vanek -- Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly -- Economic perspectives on the family / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Class struggle and the persistence of the working-class family / Jane Humphries -- Part two. Job segregation by sex and women's lower pay -- Family investments in human capital : earnings of women / Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek -- The statistical theory of racism and sexism / Edmund S. Phelps -- Determinants of the structure of industrial type labor markets / Peter B. Doeringer -- A theory of labor market segmentation / Michael Reich, David M. Gordon, Richard C. Edwards -- Structured labour markets, worker organization and low pay / Jill Rubery -- Occupational segregation, wages and profits when employers discriminate by race or sex / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Sexual discrimination in the labour market / Brian Chiplin and Peter J. Sloane -- Part three. Women's employment and the economy -- The female-male differential in unemployment rates / Beth Niemi -- Curing high unemployment rates among Blacks and women / Barbra R. Bergmann -- The 1974-1975 recession and the employment of women / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- Wives' labor force behavior and family consumption patterns / Myra H. Strober -- The employment of wives and the inequality of family income / James A. Sweet.
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Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks HD6053.E26 1980 1 Available 33710000169891

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Part one. Market work, homework and the family -- Labor force participation of married women : a study of labor supply / Jacob Mincer -- A theory of the allocation of time / Gary Becker -- Time spent in housework / Joann Vanek -- Women's work and the family in nineteenth-century Europe / Joan W. Scott and Louise A. Tilly -- Economic perspectives on the family / Isabel V. Sawhill -- Class struggle and the persistence of the working-class family / Jane Humphries -- Part two. Job segregation by sex and women's lower pay -- Family investments in human capital : earnings of women / Jacob Mincer and Solomon Polachek -- The statistical theory of racism and sexism / Edmund S. Phelps -- Determinants of the structure of industrial type labor markets / Peter B. Doeringer -- A theory of labor market segmentation / Michael Reich, David M. Gordon, Richard C. Edwards -- Structured labour markets, worker organization and low pay / Jill Rubery -- Occupational segregation, wages and profits when employers discriminate by race or sex / Barbara R. Bergmann -- Sexual discrimination in the labour market / Brian Chiplin and Peter J. Sloane -- Part three. Women's employment and the economy -- The female-male differential in unemployment rates / Beth Niemi -- Curing high unemployment rates among Blacks and women / Barbra R. Bergmann -- The 1974-1975 recession and the employment of women / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development -- Wives' labor force behavior and family consumption patterns / Myra H. Strober -- The employment of wives and the inequality of family income / James A. Sweet.