Sex Differences in Labor Markets

Sex differences in labor markets are pervasive. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework and consequential lower participation in the labor market. This volume brings together David Neumark's work over the last fifteen years of trying to understand and analyze the relative importance of family economic decision-making and sex discrimination in generating sex differences in labor markets. Neumark's research covers three main levels of inquiry, the first studies non-discriminatory sources of sex differences in labor markets: the second grapples with the problem of sex discrimination; whilst the third evaluates policies to combat and reduce sex differences in labor markets. David Neumarkis one of the most important labor economists working today. He has produced a body of work that deserves to be read as a whole. In pullingtogether this book with an impressively lucid introduction, Neumark will leave readers from economics, sociology and gender studies backgrounds with some incredibly important lessons as well as adding fuel to future research.