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Author Neumark, David

Title Sex differences in labor markets / David Neumark
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 416 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge research in gender and society ; 10
Routledge research in gender and society ; 10.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Sex differences in labor markets; introduction; Family economics and sex differences in labor markets; Does marriage really make men more productive?; Marriage, motherhood, and wages; Sources of bias in women's wage equations: results using sibling data; Fertility timing, wages, and human capital; Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment; Testing for discrimination; Employers' discriminatory behavior and the estimation of wage discrimination; Sex discrimination and women's labor market outcomes
Sex discrimination in restaurant hiring: an audit studyWages, productivity, and worker characteristics: evidence from plant-level production functions and wage equations; Testing models of discrimination; Wage differentials by race and sex: the roles of taste discrimination and labor market information; Market forces and sex discrimination; Evaluating policy responses to sex differences and sex discrimination; New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employer employee data
Are Affirmative Action hires less qualified?: evidence from employer employee data on new hiresWhat does Affirmative Action do?; Index
Summary Annotation Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework, and consequential lower participation in the labor market. This volume brings together David Neumark's work of the past fifteen years: in it he tries to understand and analyze the relative importance of family economic decision-making and sex discrimination in generating sex differences in labor markets. Neumark's research covers three main levels of inquiry. The first studies non-discriminatory sources of sex differences in labor markets; the second grapples with the problem of sex discrimination; while the third evaluates policies to combat and reduce sex differences in labor markets
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sex discrimination in employment -- United States
Sex discrimination in employment -- Government policy -- United States
Affirmative action programs -- United States
Pay equity -- United States
Work and family -- United States
Labor market -- United States
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Affirmative action programs
Labor market
Pay equity
Sex discrimination in employment
Sex discrimination in employment -- Government policy
Work and family
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0203799917
9780203799918
0415700132
9780415700139