This paper discusses research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys … importance of distinguishing between extensive and intensive margin changes in both variables; consideration not only of women … of analysing changes across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over …

This paper compares the occupational distributions in 1990 and 2000 of adult white men and women for American Jews and … non-Jews, after adjusting for the changes in occupational classifications. The data are from the microdata files from the … National Jewish Population Surveys (1990, 2000/01) and the 1990 and 2000 Censuses of Population. Among both men and women …

This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …

Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade‐offs between family … main determinant of the observed gap in labor supply between college men and women. Furthermore, with respect to hours …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women …

immigrants can displace a group at the bottom of the ladder. We use Israeli data to compare two ethnic groups: Israeli Arabs and … Ethiopian immigrants. Israeli Arabs were considered to be the least successful ethnic group in the Israeli labor market until …