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 …

of training. Using policy changes over an 18 year period we identify the impact of training and work experience on wages … of formal training and experience in defining the evolution of wages and employment careers, conditional on education …. Training is potentially important in compensating for the effects of children, especially for women who left education after …

women. This analysis yields evidence of biases in OLS estimates of wage equations for white and black women, some of which … are detected only when these two sources of bias are addressed simultaneously. For both white and black women there is … evidence of upward bias in the estimated returns to schooling. Bias-corrected estimates of the effect of marriage on wages, for …

This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in … with 20 or more female workers. The results indicate that monthly starting wages of the infra-marginal woman hired in a …

lowers wages for white women; among this group, a difference in weight of two standard deviations (roughly sixty-five pounds … evidence that weight lowers wages for hispanic women, and no evidence that weight lowers the wages of black women. This paper …Several studies have found that, all else equal, heavier women earn less. Previous research has been unable to …

measures of this exposure to estimate the long-run effects of the EITC on women's labor market outcomes - especially wages and …We use longitudinal data on marriage and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to characterize women … earnings - as mature adults. We find evidence indicating that exposure to a more generous EITC when women were unmarried and …

Changes in childbearing affect almost every aspect of human existence. Over the last fifty years, American women have … literature linking them to changes in childbearing and women's economic outcomes …

This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. She considers the likelihood of a …

attachment can affect the size of the investment, women's wages, and their labor-force separation rate. To test the hypothesis … that employers' expectations affect women's wages,I examine the effect of plans for labor-force separation on wages. It is … wages. Further investigation indicates that the skill intensity of jobs which men and women occupy is a major determinant of …