Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Women's employment patterns: some facts
  • Explanations behind women's employment patterns
  • Job segregation
  • Wage gaps
  • Rising female participation: the consequences for other workers
  • What policy should do
  • Labor supply and fertility in Europe and the US
  • Parental employment and children's welfare
  • Changes in labor market participation and family income distribution
  • Taxes, transfers, labor supply and household welfare
  • What policy should do.