Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women's labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 1990s. Moreover, a major new development was that, during both decades, there was a dramatic reduction in women's own wage … elasticity. And, continuing past trends, women's labor supply also became less responsive to their husbands' wages. Between 1980 …

"We study the large observed changes in labor supply by married women in the United States over 1950--1990, a period … when labor supply by single women has hardly changed at all. We investigate the effects of changes in the gender wage gap … average hours worked by married women and the relative constancy in the hours worked by single women, and single and married …

immigrant women to share childcare and other household responsibilities, which in turn increases the probability that they work …