Advances in Explaining Women's Employment Patterns

Autor(en)

Nadia Steiber, Barbara Haas

Abstrakt

This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial differences in women's employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers research that emphasizes economic and normative rationalities in women's employment decisions and work that focuses more on the structural constraints to women's employment. It discusses recent research developments—conceptual and methodological advances—and based on the identification of central research gaps and methodological challenges, it indicates avenues for future research. Finally, the paper casts a critical view on the ‘explanatory power’ of contemporary research on women's employment and discusses appropriate research designs for the evaluation of policy effects on women's employment.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

European University Institute (EUI), Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)

Journal

Socio-Economic Review

Band

10

Seiten

343-367

ISSN

1475-1461

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwr039

Publikationsdatum

2012

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504014 Gender Studies, 502001 Arbeitsmarktpolitik

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/65d9126d-7344-4849-a860-90f68faea74e