Single women in the U.S. dominated the female labor force from 1870 to 1920. Data on the home life and working … conditions of women in 1888 and 1907 enable the estimation of earnings functions. Work in the manufacturing sector for these … women was task oriented and payment was frequently by the piece. Earnings rose steeply with experience and peaked early …

Civil rights legislation of the 1960s made it illegal foran employer to pay men and women on different bases for the … same work or to discriminate against women in hiring, job assignment, or promotion. Two decades later, however, the ratio … of women's to men's earnings has shown little upward movement. Furthermore, major sex differences in occupational …

this investment for women who plan to interrupt their careers for family reasons. An alternative explanation that women do … the way employers and employees share in such an investment and the way employers' conceptions about women's labor force … attachment can affect the size of the investment, women's wages, and their labor-force separation rate. To test the hypothesis …

Of all the changes in the history of women's market work, few have been more impressive than the rapid emergence and … feminization of the clerical sector and the related decline in manufacturing employment for women. Although a century ago few women … were clerical workers, as early as 1920 22% of all employed non-farm women were, and about 50% of all clerical workers were …

taking account of annual hours. (In 1970 on average employed women worked about 3/4 as many hours per year as employed men …

Although women make up nearly half the U.S. workforce, most studies of earnings inequality focus on men. This is at … earnings inequality using data for three cohorts in the PSID. We show that inequality in annual earnings of women fell sharply …

We ask whether women's decisions to be in the labor force may be affected by the decisions of other women in ways not … concerns into women's (or families') utility functions. In this model, the entry of some women into paid employment can spur … the entry of other women, independently of wage and income effects. This mechanism may help to explain why, over some …

The human capital explanation of sex differences in wages is that women intend to work in the labor market more … "feedback" hypothesis consistent with the same facts is that women experience labor market discrimination and respond with …. Working women who report experiencing discrimination are significantly more likely subsequently to change employers, and to …

women. This analysis yields evidence of biases in OLS estimates of wage equations for white and black women, some of which … are detected only when these two sources of bias are addressed simultaneously. For both white and black women there is … white women, suggest a positive marriage premium. We also use the sibling data to identify our models, and test a number of …

motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables in wage …