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 …

motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables in wage …, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the "direct" effects of marriage and motherhood on … wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage or …

should differentially pull able women into the workforce, thereby closing the measured gender gap even though women's wages … and 2001, we use control function (Heckit) methods to correct married women's conditional mean wages for selectivity and … in women's mean log wages. Finally, we make a first attempt to gauge the relative importance of selection versus …

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 …

family policies on women's careers and children's wellbeing. There is to date little or no evidence of beneficial effects of …

weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …

The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. Using a modified form of that model, we estimate the impact of recession-induced loss of work experience on wages on …

Civil rights legislation of the 1960s made it illegal foran employer to pay men and women on different bases for the … same work or to discriminate against women in hiring, job assignment, or promotion. Two decades later, however, the ratio … of women's to men's earnings has shown little upward movement. Furthermore, major sex differences in occupational …

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 …