Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies Demographic Issues

by García, Brígida; Anker, Richard; Pinnelli, Antonella

• ISBN13: 9780199261123
• ISBN10: 0199261121
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-09-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 asglobalization, increasing flexibilty 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 contraceptivebehaviour, 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 both 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.

Author Biography

Brigida Garcia is Professor at the Centre for Demographic and Urban Studies of El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico 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, Geneva, Switzerland. Antonella Pinnelli is Professor of Social Demography at the Department of Demographic Sciences, University La Sapienza, Rome.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
List of Figures	ix
List of Tables	x
PART I. BACKGROUND
1. Introduction	3	(10)
Brigida Garcia, Richard Anker, and Antonella Pinnelli
2. Cross-national Analysis of Women in the Labour Market	13	(24)
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	37	(22)
Duncan Thomas, Kathleen Beegle, and Elizabeth Frankenberg
4. Gender, Labour Market, and Demographic Change: A Case Study of Women's Entry into the Formal Manufacturing Sector in Bangladesh	59	(28)
Rita Afsar
5. Missing the Partner and his Earnings: Income Situation and Labour Market Participation of Single Mothers in West and East Germany	87	(17)
Felix Büchel and Henriette Engelhardt
6. Divorce and Professional Careers in Russia During the Transition Towards Market Economy	104	(29)
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	133	(33)
Salvatore Strozza, Gerardo Gallo, and Francesca Grillo
8. Double Jeopardy? Female Rural Migrant Labourers in Urban China, the Case of Shanghai	166	(18)
Wang Feng and Shen Anan
9. Migration, Gender, and Returns to Education in Shenzhen, China	184	(25)
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	209	(36)
Elena Bardasi and Janet C. Gornick
11. Economic Opportunities and the Transition to Marriage among Young Women in the United States	245	(19)
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	264	(28)
Maria Stanfors and Lars Svensson
13. Family, Quality of Jobs, and Female Labour Force Patterns in Buenos Aires, Argentina	292	(22)
Marcela Cerrutti
14. The Influence of Female Employment and Autonomy on Reproductive Behaviour in Egypt	314	(17)
Andrzej Kulczycki and Lucia Juárez
Index	331