Female Labor Supply: Why is the US Falling Behind?
By Francine D. Blau, Lawrence M. Kahn. Social Science Research Network, 2013
130 citations recorded by the source corpus.
In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including parental leave and part-time work entitlements in other OECD countries explains 28-29% of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals.
Subfields: Demography, Economics and Econometrics, Gender Studies
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In Demography
- Lawrence M. Kahn
- Francine D. Blau
- Esfandiar Maasoumi
- Le Wang
- Patricia Cortés
- Jessica Pan
- Da Ke
- Luca Flabbi
In Economics and Econometrics
- Le Wang
- Francine D. Blau
- Esfandiar Maasoumi
- Lawrence M. Kahn
- Jessica Pan
- Luca Flabbi
- Patricia Cortés
- Da Ke
In Gender Studies
- Esfandiar Maasoumi
- Le Wang
- Francine D. Blau
- Lawrence M. Kahn
- William B. Peterman
- Stephan Klasen
- Claudia Goldin
- Janneke Pieters
Citations in the corpus
- The Gender Gap between Earnings Distributions (2019, background): “Female LFP in the United States, although rising over time, remains low compared to that for men and that for women in other developed countries (Blau and Kahn 2013).”
- The Gender Wage Gap: Extent, Trends, and Explanations (2017, background): “These findings are consistent with results from Blau and Kahn (2013a), which found that the greater expansion of family-friendly policies in other economically advanced countries than in the United States between 1990 and 2010 increased female labor-force participation in these countries relative…”