1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783848603321

Autore

Neumark David

Titolo

Sex differences in labor markets / / David Neumark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-99674-1

1-135-99675-X

0-429-23489-9

0-203-69399-X

1-280-07630-5

0-203-79991-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (433 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 10

Disciplina

331.12

331.4/133/0973

331.41330973

Soggetti

Sex discrimination in employment - United States

Sex discrimination in employment - Government policy - United States

Affirmative action programs - United States

Pay equity - United States

Work and family - United States

Labor market - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Sex differences in labor markets; introduction; Family economics and sex differences in labor markets; Does marriage really make men more productive?; Marriage, motherhood, and wages; Sources of bias in women's wage equations: results using sibling data; Fertility timing, wages, and human capital; Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment; Testing for discrimination; Employers' discriminatory behavior and the estimation of wage discrimination; Sex discrimination and women's labor market outcomes

Sex discrimination in restaurant hiring: an audit studyWages, productivity, and worker characteristics: evidence from plant-level



production functions and wage equations; Testing models of discrimination; Wage differentials by race and sex: the roles of taste discrimination and labor market information; Market forces and sex discrimination; Evaluating policy responses to sex differences and sex discrimination; New evidence on sex segregation and sex differences in wages from matched employer  employee data

Are Affirmative Action hires less qualified?: evidence from employer  employee data on new hiresWhat does Affirmative Action do?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Sex differences abound in labor markets. In the United States three differences in particular have attracted the most attention: the earnings gap, occupational segregation, and the greater responsibility of women for child care and housework, and consequential lower participation in the labor market.This volume brings together David Neumark's work of the past fifteen years: in it he tries to understand and analyze the relative importance of family economic decision-making and sex discrimination in generating sex differences in labor markets. Neumark's research covers three main levels of i

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785878303321

Autore

Hess Earl J

Titolo

The Knoxville Campaign [[electronic resource] ] : Burnside and Longstreet in east Tennessee / / Earl J. Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-61098-1

9786613923431

1-57233-924-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Disciplina

973.7/3

Soggetti

Knoxville (Tenn.) History Siege, 1863

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns

United States History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Burnside and East Tennessee -- Turn Around -- Lenoir's Station -- Campbell's Station -- Sanders Buys Time -- Siege -- Search for a Solution -- Fort Sanders -- Relief -- Break Away -- Bean's Station -- Longstreet in East Tennessee -- Orders of Battle -- Appendix A: The Forts of Knoxville -- Appendix B: Knoxville's Civil War Legacy.

Sommario/riassunto

"Hess's account of the understudied Knoxville Campaign sheds new light on the generalship of James Longstreet and Ambrose Burnside, as well as such lesser players as Micah Jenkins and Orlando Poe. Both scholars and general readers should welcome it. The scholarship is sound, the research, superb, the writing, excellent." -Steven E. Woodworth, author of Decision in the Heartland: The Civil War in the WestIn the fall and winter of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside and Confederate General James Longstreet vied for control of the city of Knoxville and with it the railroad that link