Frontiers in the Economics of Gender (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bettio, Francesca; Verashchagina, Alina

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gender is now recognized as a fundamental organizing principle for economic as well as social life, and related research has grown at an unprecedented pace in the recent decades across branches of economics. This volume takes stock of this research, proposes novel analytical frameworks and outlines further research directions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134065134
• Artikelnr.: 38455268

Autorenporträt

Francesca Bettio is Professor of Labour Economics at the University of Siena, Italy Alina Verashchagina is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Siena, Italy.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina, Part One: Historical
perspectives 1. Women in the history of economic thought through gender
lenses, Annalisa Rosselli and Cristina Marcuzzo 2. The historical
construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history
Patricia Hudson, Cardiff University Part Two: Theoretical developments 3.
A gender neutral approach to gender issues Alessandro Cigno 4. The gender
gap Graciela Chichilnisky 5. Ghosts in the machine: a post Keynesian
analysis of gender relations, households and macroeconomics Haroon Akram
Lodhi and Lucia C. Hanmer Part Three: A fresh look at households 6.
Conceptualizing care Nancy Folbre 7. Gender and household decision making
Shelly Lundberg Part Four: Labour market debates 8. Gender Differences
across Europe Peter Dolton, Oscar Marcenaro-Guttierez and Ali Skalli 9.
Occupational Segregation and Gender wage Disparities in Developed
Economies. Should We Still Worry? Francesca Bettio 10. The transition from
planned to market economies: how are women faring? Marina Malysheva,
Russian Academy of Sciences and Alina Verashchagina Part Five: Lessons from
the laboratory 11. The Gender Gap: Using the Lab as a Window on the Market
Catherine Eckel 12. The Gender effect in the Laboratory. Experimenter Bias
and Altruism Alessandro Innocenti and Maria Grazia Pazienza Part Six:
Institutions matter 13. Gender and the Political economy of knowledge, Ann
Mary May