"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 …

market wages earned by high-BMI women, but rather lower spousal transfers to married women or lower expected intra-marriage …Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets … expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply labor in labor markets, especially for women. We use US panel data …

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By … altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the …

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 …

Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …

This paper seeks to determine the impact of the changing lives of women – increased labor force participation …/earnings and reduced marriage rates – on Social Security replacement rates. First, our estimates, based on the Health and … tercile. Decomposing the reasons for the overall decline shows that increases in the labor supply and earnings of women …