...-role inputs and outputs and satisfaction with work, we employed ordered probit models. Findings The results show that women report greater job satisfaction than men do. Women value the intrinsic characteristics of their jobs more than men do. While women report that helping others and doing...

... in earnings and occupational segregation. In addition, the paper explores the reasons underlying the distinct educational choices of men and women, with particular emphasis on the role of wage uncertainty. Design/methodology/approach Using micro‐data from the Greek Labour Force Survey (LFS), Oaxaca...

... a person's giving patterns are determined for both sexes, but also what portion of differences in giving patterns can be explained by observable and unobservable characteristics between men and women. Design/methodology/approach The US dataset Giving and Volunteering 1999 was used in the study...

...Akhtar Mahmood Raff   Carmen . Autonomous Development: Humanizing the Landscape . London, New Jersey : Zed Books © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Development Economic growth Social economics Environment Women It is now widely acknowledged that the prediction...

...Carole F. Miller Presents results from cross‐section and conditional logit models estimating the probability of participation by married women. One version of each specification uses potential experience and the other a measure of the number of years worked in the market since the age of 18...

... for the establishment of "complete equality in all legal, political, social and domestic relations" (Mill, 1896). The plea is far from being fulfilled, not in the least because "equality" should also signify taking into account the specific properties of both men and women. It was even earlier, in 1791, when Olympe de...

...Hans J.G.A. van Mierlo Reconsiders tax reform and economic emancipation of women with respect to public policy formation in The Netherlands. In particular,investigates the attempts of organised interest groups of the Dutch women′s liberation movement during the 1980s to influence the public policy...

...Jürgen Backhaus The Netherlands, Women Gives a historical perspective on the economic position of women and the participation of women in the labour market, starting with Mill and Taylor′s The Subjection of Women. Reviews the current position, particularly in The Netherlands. Briefly...

...A.T.G. Paulus Could an alternative system of income maintenance overcome the existing inequitable and inefficient situation, which effectively limits women′s options in the labour market in The Netherlands? This question is approached by describing an alternative system of income maintenance...

...S.S. Gustafsson; M. Bruyn‐Hundt Compares the way women are taxed in the Germany, Sweden and The Netherlands by looking at both macro and micro data from the perspective of a wife′s contribution to family income. The programs used for analysis are included in an appendix. Taxing husbands and wives...

...Julie A. Nelson Argues the case for reform of US tax codes from a feminist viewpoint. “The household” and “the individual”are falsely distinguished in the tradition of taxing only adult male breadwinners ‐women being engulfed in “the household”. Describes recent analysis of human identity in terms...

... owing to compatibility of the mother and worker roles of married women. Journal of Economic Studies 17,2 32 A Simultaneous-equations Model of Cross-national Differentials in Fertility and Female Labourforce Participation Rates Saeid Mahdavi University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Introduction The spread...