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 …

in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after completing high school, but …

discrimination than do nonunion plants against black or Hispanic men, or against black or white women, despite ther ecessions of the …

How have women fared in unions in recent years? The major findings of this paper are that unions have been more … beneficial for women in the public sector than in the private sector, and that unionism for women is primarily a public sector … wriite collar phenomenon distinguished from that of males. According to our analysis:(1) Women have come to be an …

This paper deals with the effects of labor and transfer incomes as determinants of older women's labor force … participation. It examines the responsiveness of women aged 48-62 to the level of income available from both work and public … of disability-related transfers affects the labor supply of these women. A maximum-likelihood model is estimated …

relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …