This paper has three objectives: the first is to track the changes in labor force participation behavior of women and … care the relationship between educational levels of married women, education of their spouses, and their labor force … participation. The real explanation is a massive increase in the participation rates of married women - this increase alone explains …

We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution … racial wage differentials are higher at higher points of (the conditional) wage distribution. Black women seem to be facing a … in the inequality observed among higher paid women. The paper also reveals that using a probit specification to the …