WOMEN AT WORK by Tito Boeri (Editor), Daniela del Boca (Editor), Christopher Pissarides (Editor) ( 9780199281879 )

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Title:

WOMEN AT WORK
AN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

By:

Tito Boeri (Editor), Daniela del Boca (Editor), Christopher Pissarides (Editor)

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Hardback

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0199281874

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9780199281879

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 June, 2005

Pages:

296

Description:

Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume considers the trend towards greater particiption of women in labour markets. It addresses the trade-offs involved in increasing participation of women in paid employment, setting out a better informed policy debate about these issues, and paving the way to realistic targets and ways to achieve them.

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Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women, fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume discusses how the trend towards greater participation of women in labour markets interacts with gender differences in pay. It focusses on the scope for increasing the number of women in the labour force without negatively affecting the development of their children. The need for this volume has become self evident. At the Spring 2000 Lisbon meeting of the European Council the Heads of Governments of the EU agreed to accelerate the greater participation of women in the labour market. However, neither in Lisbon nor in the subsequent Spring European Councils of the EU was it discussed how to achieve this target - and the trade-offs that would be involved in increasing the participation of women in paid employment. Policies for increasing participation must involve some losers, or they would already have been implemented everywhere. If distributional considerations and policy trade-offs are ignored, it is only possible to set virtual targets, neglecting the reforms needed to achieve them.This book sets out a better informed policy debate about these issues, paving the way to more realistic targets and ways to achieve them.

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numerous figures and tables

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Oxford University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Co-editor Christopher Pissarides won the Nobel Prize in Economics

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