This study assesses the extent and causes of recent sex discrimination in academic positions at a large public university. Performing multiple regression analysis on data for all individuals hired for full-time faculty positions during the academic years 1975-76 through 1978-79 at the University...

Economic theories of discrimination are usually based on tastes. The huge body of empirical studies, however, considers the discriminatory outcomes that are the reduced-form results of interactions between tastes and opportunity sets. None examines tastes for discrimination directly, or...

What is the relationship between the introduction of defined-contribution accounts into public pension systems and changes in elderly poverty and income inequality? The present study examines the current state of knowledge with regard to these relationships. The study is divided into four parts:...

<DIV>The 1993 publication of Marianne A. Ferber and Julie A. Nelson's <I>Beyond Economic Man</I> was a landmark in both feminist scholarship and the discipline of economics, and it quickly became a handbook for those seeking to explore the emerging connections between the two. A decade later, this book...</i></div>

<DIV>This is the first book to examine the central tenets of economics from a feminist point of view. In these original essays, the authors suggest that the discipline of economics could be improved by freeing itself from masculine biases.<BR><BR><I>Beyond Economic Man</I> raises questions about the discipline not...</i></div>

Although most economic theories of discrimination hypothesize that discrimination stems from people's discriminatory tastes, no empirical study of the labor market has examined tastes for discrimination directly or considered people's willingness to trade off other preferences to indulge their...

Investigates the effect that the proportion of women in an occupation has on the level of earnings in the occupation. Impact of education on earnings; Causes of low incomes; Role of occupational distribution in the earnings gap between men and women. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)