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 …

Recent decades have witnessed a sharp increase in the labor force participation of married women. The paper … investigates the effect of wives' earnings on family income distribution. This effect depends on the in-equality of women … married women and in sex related earnings differentials by schooling group, wives' earnings reduce total family income …