Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay D. - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 34 (2010) 10, pp. 2126-2140
The pattern of joining the labor force only at an advanced stage of the life-cycle was widespread among American women in the 1960s and 1970s, but not since the 1980s. To explain this change we conduct a theoretical analysis of the interrelation between women's lifetime labor supply choices and...