Auf der Basis vorhandener Literatur und einer im Jahr 1936 im ländlichen Nordost-China durchgeführten Haushaltsbefragung gehen die Autoren der historischen Frage nach, welchen Status die Frau damals im Wirtschaftsleben Chinas hatte, welchen wirtschaftlichen Beitrag sie leistete, ob zu...

Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at home post birth. We provide new evidence of the labor supply effects of these leaves from an analysis of the introduction and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in...

The growing labor force participation of women with small children in both the U.S. and Canada has led to calls for increased public financing for childcare. The optimality of public financing depends on a host of factors, such as the %u201Ccrowd-out%u201D of existing childcare arrangements, the...

The relationship between occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A number of previous studies have examined this relationship in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in ``female jobs'' well as important limitations...