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Women at Work

An Economic Perspective

Daniela Del Boca editor Tito Boeri editor Christopher Pissarides editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:2nd Jun '05

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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.

  • Winner of Co-editor Christopher Pissarides won the Nobel Prize in Economics 2010.

ISBN: 9780199281879

Dimensions: 242mm x 163mm x 22mm

Weight: 592g

296 pages