Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - In: Journal of Labor Economics 25 (2007), pp. 393-438
Using March Current Population Survey data, we investigate married women’s labor supply from 1980 to 2000. We find a large rightward shift in their labor supply function for annual hours in the 1980s, with little shift in the 1990s. These shifts account for most of the slowdown in the growth...