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 …

This paper examines the relationship between real wages in the United States and productivity. The measure of … that real wages increase with increases in the capital stock and technical progress, and move inversely over business … cycles. However, the question of whether real wages are cyclical or countercyclical has not been confirmed by empirical …