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Title Frontiers in the economics of gender / edited by Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina
Published London ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (298 pages)
Series Routledge Siena studies in political economy
Routledge Siena studies in political economy.
Contents Foreword: Francesca Bettio and Alina Verashchagina -- Historical perspectives. Women in the history of economic thought through gender lenses / Annalisa Rosselli and Cristina Marcuzzo; The historical construction of gender: reflections on gender and economic history / Patricia 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 / 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 market economies: 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
Summary 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
Notes Research studies from the Summer School of International Research in Pontignano, University of Siena
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sexual division of labor.
Women -- Employment.
Sex role -- Economic aspects
Women -- Economic conditions
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Sex role -- Economic aspects
Sexual division of labor
Women -- Economic conditions
Women -- Employment
Form Electronic book
Author Bettio, Francesca
Verashchagina, Alina
ISBN 9780203927694
0203927699
9780415569521
0415569524
9780429240188
042924018X