STUDIES IN LABOR SUPPLY

Collected Essays of Jacob Mincer, Volume 2

Economists of the Twentieth Century series

The late Jacob Mincer, formerly Professor of Economics, Columbia University, US

Studies in Labor Supply, the second volume of Jacob Mincer's essays to be published in this series, focuses on the family context of labor supply especially that of women. Special attention is devoted to wage incentives and wage consequences of labor supply and to long term trends in the female labor force, a major social phenomenon of the twentieth century.