Steiber, N. and Haas, B. (2010) 'State of the Art? Advances in Explaining Women's Employment Patterns'.
EUI Working Paper, MWP 2010/08.
This paper provides a multidisciplinary review of research aimed at explaining the substantial differences in women’s employment trajectories that still exist within and across countries. It covers research that emphasises economic and/or normative rationalities in women’s employment decisions and work that focuses more on the structural constraints to women’s employment. It discusses recent research developments – conceptual and methodological advances – and based on the identification of central research gaps and methodological challenges, it indicates avenues for future research. Finally, the paper casts a critical view on the ‘explanatory power’ of contemporary research on women’s employment and discusses appropriate research designs for the evaluation of policy effects on women’s employment.
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