Frontiers in the economics of gender /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bettio, Francesca, Verashchagina, Alina
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series:Routledge Siena studies in political economy.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Historical perspectives. The history of economic thought through gender lenses / Annalisa Rosselli and Maria Cristina Marcuzzo; The historical construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history / Pat Hudson
  • Theoretical developments. A gender neutral approach to gender issues / Alessandro Cigno; The gender gap /Graciela Chichilnisky
  • Ghosts in the machine: a post Keynesian analysis of gender relations, households, and macroeconomics / A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi and Lucia C. Hanmer; A fresh look at households. Conceptualizing care / Nancy Folbre; Gender and household decision-making / Shelly Lundberg
  • Labour market debates. Gender differences across Europe / Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Guttierez and Ali Skalli; Occupational segregation and gender wage disparities in developed economies. should we still worry? / Francesca Bettio; The transition from planned to a market economy: how are women faring? / Marina Malysheva and Alina Verashchagina
  • Lessons from the laboratory.The gender gap: using the lab as a window on the market / Catherine Eckel; The gender effect in the laboratory. Experimenter bias and altruism / Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza
  • Institutions matter. Gender and the political economy of knowledge / Ann Mary May.