1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed … differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and part-timers arises because of self-selection of women who can command higher … remunerated at a lower rate in part-time than in full-time employment. Thus, the larger proportion of women than men in part …

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes … the provision of high quality public day care in Sweden encourages the labor market activity of women with preschoolers …

a typical family. Data from the 1980 Women and Employment Survey provide estimates for hourly pay as a function of work … representative women with different numbers of children. These are then combined with the earnings function to simulate lifetime … contrast markedly with those of a similar study of United States women. We argue that the non-linearity of the earnings …

For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital … characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …

unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child …