Gender Convergence in the Labor Market

Outline

For most countries, women’s labor force participation and hours of work have 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: Did the levels of and returns to human capital change over the last 50 years in the United States? 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? Does the share of women in management affect corporate performance? 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 marker?

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Chapters

• Joyce Jacobsen, Melanie Khamis, Mutlu Yuksel Convergences in Men’s and Women’s Life Patterns: Lifetime Work, Lifetime Earnings, and Human Capital Investment
• Solomon W. Polachek, Xu Zhang, Xing Zhou A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
• James Albrecht, Peter Skogman Thoursie, Susan Vroman Parental Leave and the Glass Ceiling in Sweden
• Astrid Kunze The Family Gap in Career Progression
• Shoshana Grossbard, Victoria Vernon Common Law Marriage, Labor Supply, and Time Use: A Partial Explanation for Gender Convergence in Labor Supply
• Shelly Lundberg Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
• Barry T. Hirsch, Julia Manzella Who Cares – and Does it Matter? Measuring Wage Penalties for Caring Work
• Giacomo De Giorgi, Marco Paccagnella, Michele Pellizzari Gender Complementarities in the Labor Market
• Sonia R. Bhalotra, Manuel Fernández, Atheendar S. Venkataramani The Right Tail and the Right Tale: The Gender Wage Gap in Mexico
• Stefano Gagliarducci, M. Daniele Paserman The Effect of Female Leadership on Establishment and Employee Outcomes: Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

• Volume Details
• Editors Solomon W. Polachek, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
• Publication date 29 January 2015
• ISBN 978-1-78441-456-6
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec