Both our workplaces and our public policy arrangements have not kept up with the decline of the single-breadwinner household, and an era of massive female labor force participation requires greater accommodations and adjustments to the reality of childbearing than American society has yet made.
China's phenomenal growth in recent decades was attributable in large part to its export manufacturing, propped up by a massive and low-paid labor force.
Despite the massive influx of women into the labor force as a result of globalization, the gender inqualities at work have remained largely unchanged.
During two stints as comptroller, he had seen the drop in manufacturing jobs, the wave of middle-class families moving to the suburbs, and the massive growth of the city's labor force.
A shock plunges a person or a low-income household in a state of inactivity and therefore in poverty by the loss of labor force or by massive absorption of household resources.
The increase in female educational attainment, the massive entry of women into the labor force, and the rising average age of marriage and childbirth have all played a role in depressing fertility over the past few decades.
In this paper, we estimate the impact on female labor force participation of a massive conditional cash transfer program—Universal Child Allowance, AUH launched in Argentina in 2009.
A massive labor strike across the University of California on Monday forced medical centers to reschedule more than 12,000 surgeries, cancer treatments and appointments, and campuses to cancel some classes and limit dining services.
But unemployment has fallen at least partly because workers are leaving the labor force, not because of a massive boom in hiring.
Rapidly falling fertility in these Western countries, many scholars argued, could be explained by the massive entry of women into the extra-domestic labor force.
