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Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex : An Historical Analysis

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1985

Supervisory and monitoring costs are explored to understand aspects of occupational segregation by sex. Around the turn of this century 47 percent of all female manufacturing operatives were paid by the piece, but only 13 percent of the males were. There were very few males and females employed...

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Putting the Co in Education : Timing, Reasons, and Consequences of College Coeducation from 1835 to the Present

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2010

The history of coeducation in U.S. higher education is explored through an analysis of a database containing information on all institutions offering four-year undergraduate degrees that operated in 1897, 1924, 1934, or 1980, most of which still exist today. These data reveal surprises about the...

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A Pollution Theory of Discrimination : Male and Female Differences in Occupations and Earnings

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002

Occupations are segregated by sex today, but were far more segregated in the early to mid-twentieth century when married women began to enter the labor force in large numbers. It is difficult to rationalize sex segregation and 'wage discrimination' on the basis of men's taste for distance from...

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The Rising (and then Declining) Significance of Gender

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2002

In the past two decades gender pay differences have narrowed considerably and a declining significance of gender has pervaded the labor market in numerous ways. This paper contends that in the first several decades of the twentieth century there was a rising significance of gender. The emergence...

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Life-cycle labor-force participation of married women : historical evidence and implications

Goldin, Claudia - In: Journal of labor economics 7 (1989) 1, pp. 20-47

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Monitoring costs and occupational segregation by sex : a histor. analysis

Goldin, Claudia - In: Journal of labor economics 4 (1986) 1, pp. 1-27

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The Power of the Pill : Oral Contraceptives and Women's Career and Marriage Decisions

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2000

The fraction of U.S. college graduate women entering professional programs increased substantially around 1970 and the age at first marriage among all U.S. college graduate women soared just after 1972. We explore the relationship between these two changes and how each was shaped by the...

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The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Goldin, Claudia; Katz, Lawrence F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1999

Economic inequality is higher today than it has been since 1939, as measured by both the wage structure and wealth … inequality. But the comparison between 1939 and 1999 is largely made out of necessity; the 1940 U.S. population census was the … contributing factor to the decrease in educational returns. Inequality and the returns to education across the entire century …

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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big divide was less between men and women than it...

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The Earnings Gap Between Male and Female Workers : An Historical Perspective

Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 1986

Has economic progress increased the relative earnings of females to males over the long run? Evidence on trends in the earnings gap for the last four decades appears to run counter to this hypothesis. Numerous data sources are used in this paper to piece together a 170-year history of the...

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