. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …

participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment ; bridge jobs ; baby boom …

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken … place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty …. The main finding is that the rise in education levels accounts for about one-third of the increase in female employment …

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment … rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women … supply decision is based on her husband's employment outcome while the latter type of household is characterized by a …