Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Using March Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we investigate married women’s labor supply behavior from 1980 to … 2000. We find that their labor supply function for annual hours shifted sharply to the right in the 1980s, with little … shift in the 1990s. In an accounting sense, this is the major reason for the more rapid growth of female labor supply …