The Economics of Equal OpportunitiesJane Humphries, Jill Rubery |
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analysis approach average bargaining Becker benefits Britain cent changes Chapter characteristics childcare coefficient competitive costs countries decommodification deregulated labour market discrimination division of labour earnings economic economists effects efficiency wage employers Employment Department equal opportunities policies equal pay establishment Eurostat example family-friendly female concentration feminist firms flexibility full-time gender segregation higher Holtermann household human capital income increase individual inequality institutional internal labour markets Joshi labour force legislation London low pay lower male marriage maternity leave measures monopsony neo-classical neo-classical economics Netherlands occupational groups occupational segregation OECD organisation outcomes paid parental leave participation partners pension percentage position potential productivity programmes proportion rates recognised relative Rubery sector sex segregation Skill level social security statistical discrimination status structure Table TECs theory trade unions unemployed unequal union variables vocational training wage differentials wage gap welfare women workers workforce workplace young