Overview
Describes the increasing incorporation of mothers in the labor market
Emphasizes the importance of socio-economic policies reconciling work and family life
Complements theoretical analyses with global empirical evidence
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
Keywords
- Women’s Labor Participation and Hours of Work
- Paid-work and Home Production
- Flexibility and Work from Home
- Self-employment and Entrepreneurship
- Fertility and Maternity Leave
- Wage-penalty and Career Interruption
- Labor Supply and Childcare
- Divorce and Single Mothers
- Gender Norms and Cultural Issues
- Intra-household Wage Inequality
- Inter-generational Transmission of Occupations
- Labor Supply and Grandparents
- Women’s Labor Participation and Public Benefits
- Education and Life-course Formation
- Job Satisfaction and Well-being
- Maternal Employment
- Motherhood Wage Gap
- Female Labour Market Outcome
- Gender Gaps in the Labour Market
- Balance Work and Childcare
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
José Alberto Molina is Full Professor of Economics (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since 2012. He is the Director of the Institute on Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability-IEDIS (University of Zaragoza, Spain) since January 2021. Professor Molina has been Visiting Fellow at FEDEA (Madrid, Spain), at Warwick University (UK), at the University of Rhode Island (USA) and at the Boston College (USA). He is international reviewer of JCR journals, of research projects and grants, and of doctoral theses. He is currently Associate Editor of Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, PLOS ONE and Review of Economics of the Household. The main research area of Professor Molina is microeconomics and, particularly, population and family economics, labour economics, mobility and well-being, with specific interest in intra-household allocation and inter-generational transfers. He is also working on projects related to efficient bargaining in families and time uses. Professor Molina has published in Ecological Economics, Economic Inquiry, Economic Modelling, Economics of Education Review, Energy Policy, European Journal of Health Economics, Feminist Economics, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Policy Modelling, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Regional Science, Journal of Transport Geography, Journal of Transport Economics and Policy, Kyklos, PLOS ONE, Review of Economics of the Household and Transport Policy, among others.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mothers in the Labor Market
Editors: José Alberto Molina
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99780-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99779-3Published: 25 May 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99782-3Published: 26 May 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99780-9Published: 24 May 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 269
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Labor Economics, Sociology of Work