Sex differences in labor markets / David Neumark.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sex differences in labor markets: Introduction -- Pt. I. Family economics and sex differences in labor markets -- 1. Does marriage really make men more productive? / David Neumark and Sanders Korenman -- 2. Marriage, motherhood, and wages / David Neumark and Sanders Korenman -- 3. Sources of bias in women's wage equations: results using sibling data / David Neumark and Sanders Korenman -- 4. Fertility timing, wages, and human capital / David Neumark, McKinley Blackburn and David E. Bloom -- 5. Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment / David Neumark and Andrew Postlewaite -- Pt. II. Testing for discrimination -- 6. Employers' discriminatory behavior and the estimation of wage discrimination -- 7. Sex-discrimination and women's labor market outcomes / David Neumark and Michele McLennan -- 8. Sex discrimination in restaurant hiring: an audit study -- 9. Wages, productivity, and worker characteristics: evidence from plan-level production functions nd wage equations / David Neumark, Judith K. Hellerstein and Kenneth R. Troske -- Pt. III. Testing models of discrimination -- 10. Wage differentials by race and sex: the roles of taste discrimination and labor market information -- 11. Market forces and sex discrimination / David Neumark, Judith K. Hellerstein and Kenneth R. Troske -- Pt. IV. Evaluating policy responses to sex differences and sex discrimination -- 12. New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employer-employee data / David Neumark, Kimberly Bayard, Judith K. Hellerstein and Kenneth R. Troske -- 13. Are Affirmative Action hires less qualified?: evidence from employer-employee data on new hires / David Neumark and Harry J. Holzer -- 14. What does Affirmative Action do? / David Neumark and Harry J. Holzer.

"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 Neumark is 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 pulling; together 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."--Publisher description.

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