Women at Work An Economic Perspective [Paperback]

Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater participation of women in labour markets. It addresses the trade-offs involved in increasing participation of women in paid employment, setting out a better informed policy debate about these issues, and paving the way to realistic targets and ways to achieve them.

Women in the Labour Force: How Well is Europe Doing?
1. Introduction
2. Some facts about women's employment patterns
3. What explains women's employment patterns?
4. Job segregation
5. Wage gaps
6. The consequences of rising female participation for other workers
7. What should polcy do?
Comments by Florence Jaumotte
Comments by Richard Rogerson
Labour Market Participation of Women and Fertility: the Effect of Social Policies
1. Labour supply and fertility in Europe and the U.S.
2. Parental work and child welfare
3. How does women's work affect family income distribution?
4. Taxes, transfers, labour supply and household welfare
5. What should policies do?
Comments by Valerie Lechene
Comments by Giovanni Andrea Cornia
Final Remarks by Giuseppe Bertola and G?sta Esping-Andersen

Tito Boeriis Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti. He is research fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and of the Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan. Tito Boeri obtained a Ph.D. in Economics from New York University and was senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1987 to 1996.Daniela Del Bocais Professor of Economics at the University of Turin and is Director of the newly established Center for Household Income, Labour and Demographic economics (CHILD). She has previously been President of thelË