The Emergence of the Working Wife in Holland
利用1979年荷兰全国横截面数据的probit模型估计结果，重建二战后已婚女性劳动参与率从近乎零增长到近四分之一的历程，发现女性实际工资上涨是主要推动力。
The rate of participation in the labor force by married women is lower in the Netherlands than in similar industrialized countries. However, since the end of the Second World War the participation rate increased from almost zero to almost one-fourth in less than 35 years. Using estimation results obtained with a probit model on a 1979 nationwide cross-section, this paper tries to reconstruct the postwar growth in this participation rate. It is found in particular that the increase in the real wage for female workers contributes substantially to the explanation of the observed long-run change. Given the relatively high own-wage elasticity, one would also expect Dutch wives to catch up in the future with the level of participation observed in neighboring countries.