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Mallika Thomas – W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2024
Using the historical random assignment of MBA students to peer groups at a top business school in the United States, I study the effect of the gender composition of a student's peers on the gender pay gap at graduation and long-term labor market outcomes. I find that a 10 percentage point increase in the share of male peers leads to a 2.1 percent…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Masters Degrees, Masters Programs, Business Administration

Kim, Marlene – Journal of Social Issues, 1989
Discusses ways in which historical wage structures still influence current salaries and underpay for female-dominated jobs. Examines the origins of the California State Civil Service's compensation structure, and finds that gender discrimination explicitly lowered wages for female-dominated jobs. Provides quantitative and qualitative evidence of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparable Worth, Employed Women, Employment Practices
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1988
A special survey on employer child-care practices conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in the summer of 1987 sampled 10,345 establishments with 10 or more employees selected from the BLS establishment universe file and classified by industry and size. The survey showed that over the last decade, the number of mothers in the labor…
Descriptors: Adults, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employer Supported Day Care
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1994
This handbook offers a comprehensive view of the labor force activity of women in the United States and describes a range of legal and socioeconomic developments that have had an effect upon women's participation and progress in the work force. Through numerous statistical charts and tables, the book depicts change and reactions to change in the…
Descriptors: Demand Occupations, Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1990
The status of state maternity/parental leave laws throughout the United States is depicted in eight figures and three tables. Information is reported by state for maternity/parental leave laws, months of available leave, maternity/family illness laws, days of leave for family illness, temporary disability insurance laws, temporary disability…
Descriptors: Adults, Birth, Child Health, Child Rearing
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1988
The female share of the older work force has nearly doubled since 1950. In 1987, the 6.2 million women aged 55 and over in the labor force constituted 4 of every 10 older workers. Because young women today have a stronger work attachment than did their mothers and grandmothers, the female share of the older work force is likely to continue to…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Level, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1998
As the elderly population continues to grow, more elderly persons are requiring assistance with activities of daily living. Women are the traditional caregivers to the elderly, and the many women who also participate in the paid labor force must face the challenges of meeting both work and family obligations. Types of elder care assistance not…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Caregivers, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
This report examines training provided to young persons by employers during the 1986-90 period. Data from the Youth cohort of the National Longitudinal Surveys provided information on a sample of young men and women who were between the ages of 14 and 22 in 1979 and who have been interviewed annually since then. The study focused on three…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1993
Recent changes in the structure of wages and in employer-provided benefits made available to young workers were examined. Changes in the wage structure and in benefits were compared by educational level. Data from the Youth, Young Men, and Young Women's cohorts of the National Longitudinal Surveys provided information on a sample of young men and…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Educational Attainment, Educational Status Comparison
Bureau of National Affairs, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1988
This report was prepared because of the growing national interest in the questions of work and family dynamics. It puts together 82 key statistics on work and family issues in four major areas: child care, parental leave, alternative work schedules, and elder care. In addition, a chapter of miscellaneous statistics covers areas such as the…
Descriptors: Adults, Day Care, Demography, Employed Women
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1993
This booklet provides information about the changing work force. It offers a profile of workers aged 45 and older, as well as likely changes in the work force of the future. Tables and graphs illustrate the following: profile of Americans aged 50 and older, by employment status; employment status of the civilian noninstitutional population by age…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Discrimination, Employed Women, Employment
Mercer, Elizabeth – 1989
This fact sheet provides an array of statistical data on working mothers, such as the need for child care, the child care providers, who supports child care, and work and family. Data sources include a number of federal government and private organizations. Among the statistics highlighted are the following: (1) in 1988, 65 percent of all women…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Care Occupations, Child Caregivers, Children
Shaw, Lois; Gish, Melinda; Braunstein, Jill; Allore, Sara – 1997
After remaining virtually unchanged from 1995 through the 1970s, the wage gap between women and men began to decline in the 1980s. By the early 1990s, the ratio of the annual earnings of women employed full time year-round to the annual earnings of their male counterparts reached 72.0%. That ratio decreased slightly (to 71.4%) in 1995. The wage…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Age Differences, Blacks, Career Development
Stamas, George D. – Monthly Labor Review, 1980
From 1978-79 incidence of long hours among full-time wage and salary workers dropped for the first time since the 1974-75 recession. Of those who worked long hours, about 43% received premium pay (time and one-half the regular wage for hours worked in excess of forty per week). Employers used overtime hours to cope with disequilibrium phenomena…
Descriptors: Adults, Blacks, Blue Collar Occupations, Career Education
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
An analysis of the first three annual rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, was conducted to determine the employment experiences of youth. (The survey includes a nationally representative sample of about 9,000 young men and women who were born during…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
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