Women in the Labor Market

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction / Lloyd, Cynthia B. / Andrews, Emily S. / Gilroy, Curtis L. -- Part One. Household Decision-Making and Labor Supply -- 1. Bargaining Analyses of Household Decisions / Manser, Marilyn / Brown, Murray -- 2. Comment / Gordon, Nancy M. -- 3. Comment / Ashenfelter, Orley -- Part Two. Labor Supply Projections -- 4. Projecting the Size of the Female Labor Force: What Makes a Difference? / Smith, Ralph E. -- 5. New Evidence on the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply / Heckman, James J. -- 6. Comment / Cain, Glen G. -- 7. Comment / Barrett, Nancy Smith -- Part Three. Career Decisions -- 8. Career Decisions and Labor Force Participation of Married Women / Stephan, Paula E. / Schroeder, Larry D. -- 9. Occupational Segregation Among Women: Theory, Evidence, and a Prognosis / Polachek, Soloman William -- 10. Comment / Madden, Janice Fanning -- 11. Comment / Welch, Finis -- Part Four. Wage Differentials -- 12. The Convergence to Racial Equality in Women's Wages / Smith, James P. -- 13. Work Experience, Labor Force Withdrawals, and Women's Wages: Empirical Results Using the 1976 Panel of Income Dynamics / Corcoran, Mary E. -- 14. An Evaluation of Sex Discrimination: Some Problems and a Suggested Reorientation / Chiplin, Brian -- 15. Comment / Strober, Myra H. -- 16. Comment / Mincer, Jacob -- Part Five. EEO: Training and Affirmative Action -- 17. Training Programs and the Employment and Earnings of Black Women / Kiefer, Nicholas M. -- 18. The Impact of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws on the Male-Female Earnings Differential / Beller, Andrea H. -- 19. Male-Female Wage Differentials: Has the Government had any Effect? / Lazear, Edward -- 20. Comment / Sawhill, Isabel V. -- 21. Comment / Wallace, Phyllis A. -- 22. Comment / Killingsworth, Mark R. -- 23. Reply to Killingsworth / Lazear, Edward -- Bibliography