Francine D Blau

Biographic Data

ID283384
NAMEFrancine D Blau
GIVEN NAMESFrancine D
FAMILY NAMEBlau
SIGNATUREBLAU F D
AFFILIATIONSCornell University
ORCID0000-0001-6646-3794
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS49
TOTAL CITATIONS533
AUTHOR COUNT48
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13

  • Gender Inequality in the Labor Market

    Open AccessFrancine D BlauARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2025Cited by: 1References: 41

    This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States, focusing primarily on labor force participation, occupational attainment, and the gender wage gap. Considerable progress was made on all dimensions prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or stalling of gains thereafter, with a plateauing of female labor force participation trends and a slowing of women's occupational and wage convergence with men. The author con…

  • The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M Kahn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2024

  • Fifty Years of Breakthroughs and Barriers

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Lisa M LynchARTICLEThe Annals of the American…2024References: 26

    We provide an overview of what has happened for women over the past 50 years as they worked to break through professional barriers in economics, policy, and institutional leadership. We chart the progress of women in higher education at the college level and beyond and then examine women’s representation at the upper levels of academia, government, law, medicine, and management. We begin our description of trends in 1972, when Title IX was enacte…

  • Is there still son preference in the United States

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Lawrence M Kahn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2020Cited by: 6References: 4

  • The Gender Wage Gap

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEJournal of Economic Literature2017

    Using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) microdata over the 1980–2010 period, we provide new empirical evidence on the extent of and trends in the gender wage gap, which declined considerably during this time. By 2010, conventional human capital variables taken together explained little of the gender wage gap, while gender differences in occupation and industry continued to be important. Moreover, the gender pay gap declined much more slowly a…

  • The Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration

    Panel on the Economic and Fiscal Consequences of Immigration, Committee on…BOOKEconomic and Fiscal Consequences…2017

    ment of the labor market could be very short. Either way, if the economy simply returns to a larger version of its pre-immigration state, with the same capital-labor ratio, there are no winners and losers among the native-born, but equally, no net benefit to them from immigration

  • Gender, Economics of

    Open AccessFrancine D BlauCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2015

  • Immigrants and gender roles

    Open AccessFrancine D BlauARTICLEIZA Journal of Migration2015Cited by: 15References: 20

    This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence i…

  • Female Labor Supply

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2013

    In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010 its rank had fallen to seventeenth. We find that the expansion of “family-friendly” policies, including parental leave and part-time work entitlements in other OECD countries, explains 29 percent of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time w…

  • Trends in Occupational Segregation by Gender 1970–2009

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Peter Brummund et al.ARTICLEDemography2013Cited by: 50References: 21

    In this article, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970–2009 period based on a consistent set of occupational codes and data sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends…

  • The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Lawrence M Kahn et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2012Cited by: 32References: 6

  • Gender, Source Country Characteristics, and Labor Market Assimilation among Immigrants

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M Kahn et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2011

    Using 1980–2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on married adult immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles, we find that immigrant women from countries with high female labor supply persistently work more than those from low-female-supply countries. While both groups of women work less than comparable natives on arrival, women from high-female-participation countries eventually close the gap with natives ent…

  • The economics of women, men and work

    Francine D BlauBOOKThe economics of women, men and…2010

  • Gender and Assimilation among Mexican Americans

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnCHAPTERMexican Immigration to the United…2007

    Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico, strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the United States, immigrant women have a higher incidence of marriage (spouse present), higher fertility, and much lower labor supply than comparable white natives; wage differe…

  • The Gender Pay Gap

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEAcademy of Management Perspectives2007

    Executive Overview The trends in the gender pay gap in the United States form a somewhat mixed picture. On the one hand, after a half a century of stability in the earnings of women relative to men, there has been a substantial increase in women's relative earnings since the late 1970s. One of the things that make this development especially dramatic and significant is that the recent changes contrast markedly with the relative stability of earli…

  • Changes in the Labor Supply Behavior of Married Women

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2007

    Using March Current Population Survey data, we investigate married womenâ€TMs labor supply from 1980 to 2000. We find a large rightward shift in their labor supply function for annual hours in the 1980s, with little shift in the 1990s. These shifts account for most of the slowdown in the growth of labor supply during this period. A major development was the dramatic decrease in the responsiveness of married womenâ€TMs labor supply to their own an…

  • Labor market institutions and demographic employment patterns

    Open AccessGiuseppe Bertola, Francine D Blau et al.ARTICLEJournal of Population Economics2007Cited by: 33References: 5

  • The U.S. Gender Pay Gap in the 1990S

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2006Cited by: 37References: 37

    Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data, the authors study the slowdown in the convergence of female and male wages in the 1990s compared to the 1980s. They find that changes in human capital did not contribute to the slowdown, since women's relative human capital improved comparably in the two decades. Occupational upgrading and deunionization had a larger positive effect on women's relative wages in the 1980s than in the 1990s…

  • Do Cognitive Test Scores Explain Higher U.S. Wage Inequality

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2005

    Using microdata from the 1994–1998 International Adult Literacy Survey for nine countries, we examine the role of cognitive skills in explaining higher wage inequality in the United States. We find that while the greater dispersion of cognitive test scores in the United States plays a part in explaining higher U.S. wage inequality, higher labor market prices (i.e., higher returns to measured human capital and cognitive performance) and greater re…

  • Understanding International Differences in the Gender Pay Gap

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEJournal of Labor Economics2003

    Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985–94 period, we find that more compressed male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender pay gap, with an especially large effect for wage structures. Reduced‐form specifications indicate that the extent of collective bargaining coverage is also significantly negatively related to the gender pay gap. Together, the wage compression and collective bargaining resu…

  • At Home and Abroad

    Steven G Allen, Francine D Blau et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2003

  • Gender Differences in Pay

    Open AccessFrancine D Blau, Lawrence M KahnARTICLEThe Journal of Economic…2000Cited by: 87References: 31

    We consider the gender pay gap in the United States. Both gender-specific factors, including gender differences in qualifications and discrimination, and overall wage structure, the rewards for skills and employment in particular sectors, importantly influence the gender pay gap. Declining gender differentials in the U.S., and the more rapid closing of the gender pay gap in the U.S. than elsewhere, appear to be primarily due to gender-specific fa…

  • Understanding Young Women's Marriage Decisions

    Francine D Blau, Lawrence M Kahn et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…2000Cited by: 29References: 22

    Using the 1970, 1980 1990 Censuses, the authors investigate the impact of labor and marriage market conditions on the incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). They first estimate the effects on marriage of personal characteristics and Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) indicators, separately by race and education group. They then regress the first-stage MSA effects on MSA-level labor and marriage market conditions and welfare benefits, …

  • Gender and Family Issues in the Workplace

    Sanders Korenman, Francine D Blau et al.ARTICLEIndustrial and Labor Relations…1999

  • Continuing Progress? Trends in Occupational Segregation in the United States over the 1970s and 1980s

    Francine D Blau, Patricia Simpson et al.ARTICLEFeminist Economics1998Cited by: 19References: 5

    This study uses comparable data on 470 detailed occupations from the 1970, 1980, and 1990 Censuses to analyze trends in occupational segregation in the United States in the 1980s and compare them in detail to the 1970s experience of declining segregation. We find that the trend towards reduced segregation did indeed continue into the 1980s at only a slightly slower pace. In both decades, changes in sex composition within occupations accounted for…