For most countries, women's labor force participation and hours of
work has risen while men's have fallen. Concomitantly, men's and
women's wages and occupational structures have been converging.
This volume contains new and innovative research on issues related
to gender convergence in the labor market. Topics include patterns
in lifetime work, earnings and human capital investment, the gender
wage gap, gender complementarities, career progression, the gender
composition of top management and the role of parental leave
policies. Among the questions answered are: Do the levels of and
returns to human capital change over the last 50 years in the US?
Can the shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological
constraint) explain the division of labor in the home and the
resulting wage gap? Does skill-biased technological change favor
women's wages more than men's? Do care sector jobs incur a wage
penalty? What impact does this have on firm and employee outcomes?
Does the glass-ceiling faced by women in top management relate to
fertility and parental leave policies and having children? And
finally, are men and women complements or substitutes in the labor
market?
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