Women working longer : increased employment at older ages

"Today, more American women in their sixties and seventies are active members of the workforce. The trend toward rising participation emerged in the 1980s and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substantial changes in macroeconomic conditions. Why is this so? Today s older Amer...

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Auteurs principaux : Goldin Claudia Dale (Directeur de publication), Katz Lawrence Francis (Directeur de publication)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Women working longer : increased employment at older ages / edited by Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
Publié : Chicago, London : The University of Chicago Press , C 2018
Description matérielle : 1 volume (X-315 p.)
Collection : Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Sujets :
  • Introduction / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  • Part I, Transitions over the life cycle
  • 1, Women working longer : facts and some explanations / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz
  • 2, The return to work and women's employment decisions / Nicole Maestas
  • 3, Understanding why black women are not working longer / Joanna N. Lahey
  • Part II, Family matters : caregiving, marriage, and divorce
  • 4, Changes in marriage and divorce as drivers of employment and retirement of older women / Claudia Olivetti and Dana Rotz
  • 5. Women working longer : labor market implications of providing family care / Sean Fahle and Kathleen McGarry
  • Part III, Financial considerations : resources, pensions, and social security
  • 6, Older women's labor market attachment, retirement planning, and household debt / Annamaria Lusardi and Olivia S. Mitchell
  • 7, Teaching, teachers' pensions, and retirement across recent cohorts of college graduate women / Maria D. Fitzpatrick
  • 8. The role of social security benefits in the initial increase of older women's employment : evidence from the social security notch / Alexander Gelber, Adam Isen, and Jae Song
  • 9. The hidden resources of women working longer: evidence from linked survey-administrative data / C. Adam Bee and Joshua Mitchell