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Home > Publications > Publications on sale > Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies

Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies Brígida García, Richard Anker and Antonella Pinnelli

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 flexibility 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 bith 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. Brígida García is Professor at the Centre for Demographic and Urban Studies of El Colegio de México, México City. She has published many works on labour markets, the family and gender, and from 1995-99 served as co-chair of the Gender and Population Committee of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP). Richard Anker works for the International Labour Office (ILO), Geneva, Switzerland. Antonella Pinnelliis Professor of Social Demography at the Department of Demographic Sciences, University 'La Sapienza', Rome. 2003 - 341p - £36 (£48 to non members)

Table of Contents

Part I. Background

1. Introduction
Brígida García, Richard Anker and Antonella Pinnelli

2. Cross-national Analysis of Women in the Labour Market
Robert L. Clark, Anne York, and Richard Anker

Part II. Labour Market and Demographic Effects of Major Economic and Political Change

3. Labour Market Transitions of Men and Women during an Economic Crisis: Evidence from Indonesia
Duncan Thomas, Kathleen Beagle, and Elizabeth Frankenberg

4. Gender, Labour Market, and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Women's Entry into the Formal Manufacturing Sector in Bangladesh
Rita Afsar

5. Missing the Partner and his Earnings: Income Situation and Labour Market Participation of Single Mothers in West and East Germany
Felix Büchel and Henriette Engelhardt

6. Divorce and Professional Careers in Russia During the Transition Towards Market Economy
Patrick Festy, Irina Kortchagina, Olga Mouratcheva, and Lidia Prokofieva

Part III. Migration and Labour Market Changes for Women and Men

7. Gender and the Labour Market among Immigrants in Some Italian Areas: The Case of Moroccans, Former Yugoslavians, and Poles
Salvatore Strozza, Gerardo Gallo, and Francesca Grillo

8. Double Jeopardy? Female Rural Migrant Labourers in Urban China, the Case of Shanghai
Wang Feng and Shen Anan

9. Migration, Gender, and Returns to Education in Shenzhen, China
Zai Liang and Yiu Por Chen

Part IV. Increasing Feminization of the Labour Force: Balancing Work and Family

10. Women and Part-time Employment: Workers' 'Choices' and Wage Penalties in Five Industrialized Countries
Elena Bardasi and Janet C. Gornick

11. Economic Opportunities and the Transition to Marriage among Young Women in the United States
Amy G. Cox, Joan M. Hermsen, and Jacob Alex Klerman

12. Education, Career Opportunities, and Changing Patterns of Fertility: A Study of Women in the Labour Market in Twentieth-Century Sweden
Maria STanfors and Lars Svensson

13. Family, Quality of Jobs, and Female Labour Force Patterns in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marcela Cerrutti

14. The Influence of Female Employment and Autonomy on Reproductive Behaviour in Egypt
Andrzej Kulczycki and Lucía Juárez

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