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WOMEN’S WORK AND WAGES

At a time when women in industrialized countries have a stronger and more permanent

presence in the labor market than ever before, why does a gender pay gap still exist

and why does this gap differ so greatly between countries? Why have the marked

decreases in sex differentials in labor force participation not been accompanied by

corresponding decreases in occupational sex segregation in the labor market? These

are the issues addressed by the studies in this volume.

Contributors to the first part of the collection examine the current state of the economics

of the gender pay gap and the economics of sex segregation. They illustrate how

important insights can be obtained, first through introducing the concept of wage

structure as an analytical tool and second through applying a more explicit general

equilibrium modeling of occupational segregation.

Time allocation has a central role in the economics of gender. A second part is

devoted to the empirical study of gender differences in family responsibilities and

time allocation and to how such differences affect and interact with women’s wages.

In the final part of the book, contributors analyze various aspects of pay structures

and wage mobility. The often neglected issues of gender differences in inter-industry

wage differentials and fringe benefits are treated in depth. The book ends with a

study of the background to the differences in men’s and women’s pay in the Soviet

Union.

Women’s Work and Wages is a timely study of some of the most important issues in

Gender Economics. Its findings illustrate how educational and occupational sex

segregation, as well as family responsibilities, have contributed to the persisting gender

wage gap.

Inga Persson is Professor of Economics at Lund University, Sweden. She holds a

chair in the Economics of Gender and has published on labor market policy,

unemployment, the welfare state and the economic position of women. Her publications

include Generating Equality in the Welfare State: The Swedish Experience (1990).

Christina Jonung is a University Lecturer in the Department of Economics at Lund

University, Sweden. Her research has concerned the economic position of women in

Sweden and gender equality policies.

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN GENDER

AND SOCIETY

1. ECONOMICS OF THE FAMILY AND FAMILY POLICIES Edited by

Inga Persson and Christina Jonung

2. WOMEN’S WORK AND WAGES Edited by Inga Persson and Christina

Jonung

WOMEN’S WORK AND

WAGES

Edited by Inga Persson and

Christina Jonung

A selection of papers from the 15th Arne Ryde Symposium on

“Economics of Gender and the Family,” in honor of Anna Bugge

and Knut Wicksell

London and New York

First published 1998

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Christina Jonung; individual chapters: the contributors

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

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invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any

information storage or retrieval system, without permission

in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 0-203-05732-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-20685-1 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0–415–14903–7 (Print Edition)

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