Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

immigration has little if any negative impact on wages among natives, whereas others suggest that immigration has large, negative … effects on native wages. On the latter side of the debate, many point to the work of Borjas (2003) who takes a national view … estimate a positive, statistically significant relationship between men's wages and women's entry into education …

original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …