How are the work trajectories of Chilean women? This qualitative study analyzes female through interviews and biograms in a sample 50 women, professionals non-professionals, between ages 24 88. The article proposes an original typology relates type trajectory with Piore’s theory labor market segmentation. paper discusses challenges weaknesses women’s outcome presents recent data to extrapolate ...

This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation that determines the participation rate is estimated with GMM, using panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden’s ...

Persistence and the German Unemployment Problem: Empirical Evidence on German Labor Market Flows Using a retrospective monthly calendarium of individuals’ major economic activities, this paper characterizes the monthly employment and unemployment rates and the monthly transition intensities between the states of employment, unemployment, and out-of-thelabor-force for the German labor market bet...

Parenthood necessarily increases the scope of unpaid work in households and tends to depress women’s employment rates relative men’s. This paper examines relationship between use full-time childcare for children under 3 years age men women with one, two, or three more 6 European households. Panel data from a sample (then) twenty-eight Union member states 2005–15 period were analyzed. The result...

This paper is an essay on the challenges that arise when attempting to quantify the extent of labor market discrimination against women. Three major economic theories of labor market discrimination are discussed: tastes and preferences, market power, and statistical discrimination. Decomposition methodology is presented and critiqued. Issues associated with attempts to use decomposition methodo...

Manning proposes that the ‘traditional’ monopsony model, once regarded as an analytical curiosity, be adopted as a widely-applicable description of firms’ behavior in labor markets. In Manning’s view, search frictions in the labor market generate upwardsloping labor supply curves to individual firms even when firms are small relative to the labor market. Thus a model of ‘monopsonistic competiti...

The research of employability shows tension in the social field of career, where variables such as market value, gender, and personal skills are important. The aim of this study was to identify the predicted weight of market value of type of occupation, sex, and career competences (self-efficacy, pro-activity, and locus of control) over objective employability and perceived opportunities for a ...

The expansion of market relations into new arenas, reflecting the bourgeois need to “nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere” (Marx and Engels 1998: 39), is not just geographic. Colonization begins at home, as seen in the progressive commodification of women’s previously unpaid labor. Thus, even as women slowly improved the gender division of housework (Bianchi et...