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Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies
Demographic Issues
Edited by Brígida García, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli
356 pages
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numerous figures and tables
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926112-3
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Hardback
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15 May 2003
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- Examines the tremendous transformation of womens' roles within the work place and family.
- Provides up to date information for policy makers concerned with labour markets and the family.
- Written by developed and developing country experts, incorporating their knowledge and every-day expertise.
This book examines a central issue in understanding recent changes in demographic patterns and the labour market - the increased participation of women in the workforce, and how the nature of this participation has developed. In the context of such economic and labour phenomena as globalization, increasing flexibilty in work patterns, intermittent and part-time employment, and in many countries high underemployment or unemployment, the role of women workers has transformed dramatically.
This book explores a number of demographic issues associated with these developments, such as
migration in the developed world and transition economies, family formation and dissolution, the autonomy of women migrants, household composition, the evolution of gender systems, and contraceptive behaviour, both as factors that determine the labour market conditions for women and their income levels, and as demographic outcomes.
The studies cover a wide-range of situations, from societies with a strong patriarchal ideology and residential female seclusion, to industrialized countries with policies designed to assist women manage both a work and a family role, and makes use of extensive data sets collected at country level. The Editors have sought to maintain an interdisciplinary outlook in the book, and to draw policy implications from the various socio-economic
situations examined.
Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in demography, sociology, geography, politics, and economics, and those involved in policy decisions regarding the labour markets, and in particular the participation of women within these.
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Edited by Brígida García, College of Mexico, Richard Anker, International Labour Office, and Antonella Pinnelli, University of Rome, Sapienza Contributors:
Rita Afsar, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies
Shen Anan, Institute of Population and Development, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Richard Anker, International Labour Office, Geneva
Elena Bardasi, University of Essex
Kathleen Beegle, The World Bank
Felix Büchel, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin
Marcela Cerrutti, Centro de Estudios de Población, Buenos
Aires
Yiu Por Chen, Columbia University
Robert L. Clark, North Carolina State University
Amy G. Cox, RAND, Santa Monica
Henriette Engelhardt, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin
Wang Feng, University of California at Irvine
Patrick Festy, Institute National d'Études Démographiques, Paris
Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of California at Los Angeles
Gerardo Gallo, ISTAT
Brígida García, El Colegio de México
Janet C. Gornick, Department of Political Science, Baruch College, City University of New York
Francesca Grillo, University La Sapienza, Rome
Joan M. Hermsen, University of Missouri, Columbia
Lucía Juárez, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Jacob Alex Klerman, RAND, Santa Monica
Irina Kortchagina, Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences
Andrzej Kulczycki, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Zai Liang, State University of New York at Alabama
Olga Mouratcheva, St. Petersbury Univerfsity of Economics and Finance
Antonella Pinnelli, University La Sapienza, Rome
Lidia Prokofieva, Institute of Socio-Economic Studies of Population, Russian Academy of Sciences
Maria Stanfors, Lund University, Sweden
Salvatore Strozza, University Frederico II, Naples
Lars Svensson, Lund University, Sweden
Duncan Thomas, University of California at Los Angeles
Anne York,
Meredith College
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Part I: Background
1: Brígida García, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli: Introduction
2: Robert L. Clark, Anne York, and Richard Anker: Cross-National Analysis of Women in the Labour Market
Part II: Labour Market and Demographic Effects of Major Economic and Political Change
3: Duncan Thomas, Kathleen Beegle, and Elizabeth Frankenberg: Labour Market Transitions of Men and Women During an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia
4: Rita Afsar: Gender, Labour Market, and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Women's Entry into the Formal Manufacturing Sector in Bangladesh
5: Felix Buchel and Henriette Engelhardt: Missing the Partner and his Earnings: Income Situation and Labour Market Participation of Single Mothers in West and East Germany
6: Patrick Festy, Irina Kortchagina, Olga Mouratcheva, and Lidia Prokofieva: Divorce and Professional Careers in Russia During the Transition Towards Market Economy
Part III: Migration and Labour Market Changes for Women and Men
7: Salvatore Strozza, Gerardo Gallo, and Francesca Grillo: Gender and the Labour Market Among Immigrants in Some Italian Areas: The Case of Moroccans, Former Yugoslavians, and Poles
8: Wang Feng and Shen Anan: Double Jeopardy? Female Rural Migrant Labourers in Urban China: The Case of Shanghai
9: Zai Liang and Yiu Por Chen: Migration, Gender, and Returns to Education in Shenzhen, China
Part IV: Increasing Feminization of the Labour Force: Balancing Work and Family
10: Elena Bardasi and Janet C. Gornick: Women and Part-Time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries
11: Amy G. Cox, Joan M. Hermsen, and Jacob Alex Klerman: Economic Opportunities and the Transition to Marriage Among Young Women in the United States
12: Maria Stanfors and Lars Svensson: Education, Career Opportunities, and Changing Patterns of Fertility: A Study of Women in the Labour Market in Twentieth-Century Sweden
13: Marcela Cerrutti: Family, Quality of Jobs, and Female Labour Force Patterns in Buenos Aires, Argentina
14: Andrzej Kulczycki and Lucía Juárez: The Influence of Female Employment and Autonomy on Reproductive Behaviour in Egypt
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