Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

as Mexico experience fluctuations in employment that are twice as large as in high wage countries such as the United … the degree of movement of this margin in the data is sufficient to explain relative employment volatility in Mexico and …