Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Contributors IX
5. Introduction XI
6. Part One. Household Decision-Making and Labor Supply
7. 1. Bargaining Analyses of Household Decisions 3
8. 2. Comment 27
9. 3. Comment 37
10. Part Two. Labor Supply Projections
11. 4. Projecting the Size of the Female Labor Force: What Makes a Difference? 45
12. 5. New Evidence on the Dynamics of Female Labor Supply 66
13. 6. Comment 98
14. 7. Comment 111
15. Part Three. Career Decisions
16. 8. Career Decisions and Labor Force Participation of Married Women 119
17. 9. Occupational Segregation Among Women: Theory, Evidence, and a Prognosis 137
18. 10. Comment 158
19. 11. Comment 168
20. Part Four. Wage Differentials
21. 12. The Convergence to Racial Equality in Women's Wages 173
22. 13. Work Experience, Labor Force Withdrawals, and Women's Wages: Empirical Results Using the 1976 Panel of Income Dynamics 216
23. 14. An Evaluation of Sex Discrimination: Some Problems and a Suggested Reorientation 246
24. 15. Comment 271
25. 16. Comment 278
26. Part Five. EEO: Training and Affirmative Action
27. 17. Training Programs and the Employment and Earnings of Black Women 289
28. 18. The Impact of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws on the Male-Female Earnings Differential 304
29. 19. Male-Female Wage Differentials: Has the Government had any Effect? 331
30. 20. Comment 352
31. 21. Comment 356
32. 22. Comment 362
33. 23. Reply to Killingsworth 376
34. Bibliography 379