Gender and the Labour Market

ERLING BARTH Senior Researcher, Institute of Social Research, Oslo HARMINDER BATTU Lecturer in Economics, University of Aberdeen FELIX BAuCHEL Lecturer, Department of Economics, Technical University of Berlin DAVID CLAeMENT PhD Student in Economics, University of Orleans NABANITA DATTA GUPTA Associate Professor of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, Aarhus HUGH DAVIES formerly Lecturer in Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London RONALD DEKKER PhD Researcher, Work and Organization Research Centre, Tilburg University RICHARD B. FREEMAN Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics, Harvard University AMADEO FUENMAYOR Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia MARIA JEPSEN PhD Student, Department of Applied Economics, University of Brussels HEATHER JOSHI Professor of Economic Demography, Institute of Education, University of London LOIS JOY Economist, Smith College, Massachusetts MARK KILLINGWORTH Professor of Economics, Rutgers University REIJA LILJA Research Director, Labour Institute for Economic Research, Helsinki MARGARET MARUANI Sociologist, Research Director, CNRS RUUD MUFFELS Professor of Labour Market and Social Security Studies, Tilburg University RONALD L. OAXACA Professor of Economics, University of Arizona ROMANA PERONACI Research Analyst, European Central Bank HARALD DALE-OLSEN Research Fellow, Institute for Social Research, Norway CONCHA SALVADOR Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia PAUL SEAMAN Lecturer in Economics, University of Dundee PETER SLOANE Jaffrey Professor of Political Economy, University of Aberdeen NINA SMITH Professor of Economics, Aarhus School of Business CATHERINE SOFER Professor of Economics, University of Orleans ELENA STANCANELLI Economist, Directorate for Education, Employment, Labour and Social Affairs, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Paris ISABELLE TERRAZ Department of Economics, University of Brussels CECILE WETZELS Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam

The rest of the book deals with the postponement of first birth by educated women, the non-cooperative behaviour in time use, gender differences in job and worker mobility, transitions between employment status, discriminations contained in tax systems and poverty rate of single parent households.The purpose of this book is to analyse the remaining obstacles to achieving gender equality. The first chapters present different aspects of the gender earnings gap. Different countries are studied and special emphasis is laid on particular sectors and occupations. The rest of the book deals with the postponement of first birth by educated women, the non-cooperative behaviour in time use, gender differences in job and worker mobility, transitions between employment status, discriminations contained in tax systems and poverty rate of single parent households.