Women and the Economy

Family, Work and Pay

Saul D. Hoffman, Susan L. Averett (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2021 | 4th edition
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-352-01200-2 (ISBN)

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An analysis of the enormous changes in women’s economic lives around the world, from the family to the labour market. This book examines topics such as the effect of rising women’s wages and improved labour market opportunities on marriage, the ways in which more reliable contraception has shaped women’s adult lives and careers, and the forces behind the phenomenal rise in women’s labour force activity. This fourth edition includes brand new chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in the USA. It incorporates the latest research findings throughout, many of which are featured in helpful call-out boxes, and illustrated with new graphs and figures.

This is invaluable reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of economics, development and women’s studies. The level of economic analysis is suitable for students with basic economics knowledge.

New to this Edition:
- New chapters on gender in economics and race and gender in economics
- Fully updated with new data, policy examples and a new companion website with lecturer resources
- Increased pedagogy, with over 30 new boxes

Saul D. Hoffman is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Delaware, where he taught for 39 years. He also served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Lyon II, University of Paris 1-Sorbonne, and the University of Colorado, Denver. He has published widely in labor economics and economic demography. He is the author of By the Numbers: The Public Costs of Teen Childbearing and co-editor of Kids Having Kids (2nd Edition), to which he also contributed several chapters. Susan L. Averett is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at Lafayette College. She has published widely in both economic demography and health economics and currently serves as co-editor of the journal Economics and Human Biology. From 2010-2015, she was co-editor of the Eastern Economic Journal. She is a co-editor (with Saul D. Hoffman and Laura M. Argys) of The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, published in 2018. She is also a Research Associate at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).

1. Women and the economy
2. Economics tools and thinking
3. Gender and economics
4. Marriage and the family: an economic approach
5. Marriage: applications and extensions
6. The economics of fertility
7. The economics of fertility: applications and extensions
8. Women at work
9. Women’s labor force participation: applications and extensions
10. Women's earnings, occupation, and education: an overview
11. Gender differences in earnings: explanations
12. Gender differences in earnings: methods and evidence
13. Race and gender in the USA
14. Marriage and fertility in developing countries
15. Women's education, work and earnings in developing countries.

Erscheinungsdatum	09.03.2021
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	193 x 260 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
Schlagworte	Developing Countries • Development • Economics • Economic Theory • economy • Employment • feminist economics • fertility • Gender • Labor • Labor Economics • Women • Work
ISBN-10	1-352-01200-6 / 1352012006
ISBN-13	978-1-352-01200-2 / 9781352012002
Zustand	Neuware