Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies: Demographic Issues

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. Contributors to this volume - 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 Buchel, Max Planck Institute of Human Development, Berlin Marcela Cerrutti, Centro de Estudios de Poblacion, 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'Etudes Demographiques, Paris Elizabeth Frankenberg, University of California at Los Angeles Gerardo Gallo, ISTAT Brigida Garcia, El Colegio de Mexico 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 Lucia Juarez, 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