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Author: Burge, Stephanie
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1. Baird, Chardie L.
Burge, Stephanie
Family-friendly Benefits and Full-time Working Mothers' Labor Force Persistence
Community, Work and Family 21,2 (March 2018): 168-192.
Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13668803.2018.1428173
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; First Birth; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment

Family-friendly benefits are intended to help mothers balance rather than juggle work and family. Prior research assumes that family-friendly benefits have a similar effect on mothers' persistence in full-time work across parity. However, there is evidence that the transitions to first-time and second-time motherhood are qualitatively, as well as quantitatively, different experiences. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), we investigate women's labor force status (full-time, part-time, and not working) after both parity transitions among women who were working in the labor force full-time prior to the birth of their first child. We find that mothers often persist in the same labor force status after the birth of their second child that they held after the birth of their first child, but there is wide variability in labor force and parity pathways. In addition, a wider array of family-friendly benefits is associated with second-time mothers' full-time work than first-time mothers.
Bibliography Citation
Baird, Chardie L. and Stephanie Burge. "Family-friendly Benefits and Full-time Working Mothers' Labor Force Persistence." Community, Work and Family 21,2 (March 2018): 168-192.
2. Baird, Chardie L.
Burge, Stephanie
One is One and Two is Ten: Motherhood Transitions and Mothers’ Labor Force Participation
Presented: Atlanta GA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Births, Repeat / Spacing; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment; Motherhood

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

Previous scholarship has not seriously considered the various parenthood transitions on women’s labor force participation. Most prior research assumes that each additional child has the same effect on mothers’ labor force participation and wages, not the transition from zero to one or one to two. However, the transition from zero to one child is likely to be different from the transition from one to two children and thus each requires different job and occupational arrangements to aid mothers’ successful return to the labor force. This paper uses multinomial logistic and logistic regression and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) to explore the effects of the transition from zero to one versus one to two children on mother’s labor force participation. We find that mothers working in retention jobs rather than secondary jobs are more likely to be working full-time than part-time after the birth of a first child and the birth of a second child. In addition, the family situations and socio-demographic characteristics differentially affect labor force participation after the first and second birth indicating that the processes affecting the return to work after the birth of a first or second child are different.
Bibliography Citation
Baird, Chardie L. and Stephanie Burge. "One is One and Two is Ten: Motherhood Transitions and Mothers’ Labor Force Participation." Presented: Atlanta GA, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2010.
3. Reynolds, John R.
Boyd, Emily
Burge, Stephanie
Harris, Brandy
Robbins, Cheryl
Does Being Planful Always Pay Off? Agency, Economics, and Achievements by Midlife
Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, May 2004.
Also: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~jreynold/nlsy.pdf
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Sociology, Florida State University
Keyword(s): Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Life Course; Occupational Aspirations; Occupational Attainment

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Drawing from life course research on agency and structural constraint in the transition to adulthood, this paper measures the influences of planful competence and labor market conditions on adolescents' educational and occupational plans, changes in their career plans over three years, and their achievements at midlife. Adolescents with a purposive orientation toward life combined with general and practical knowledge have more ambitious career plans, more stable plans in young adulthood, and greater educational and occupational achievements by early midlife. Local labor markets are not strongly associated with plans or achievements, though poor local economic conditions do decrease the positive impact of planful competence on early plans for schooling and on occupational attainment at midlife. Important incongruities between early expectations and achievements at midlife exist across race/ethnic groups and between women and men; however, the benefits of adolescent planful competence are comparable across race, class, and gender....This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), a multistage, stratified, national random sample of non-institutionalized young men and women living in the United States who were ages 14 to 22 years in 1979....We use data from the 1979, 1982, and 1992 waves to study planful competence and career expectations in late adolescence, changes in career expectations from late adolescence to early adulthood, and achievements in work and schooling by early midlife.
Bibliography Citation
Reynolds, John R., Emily Boyd, Stephanie Burge, Brandy Harris and Cheryl Robbins. "Does Being Planful Always Pay Off? Agency, Economics, and Achievements by Midlife." Working Paper, Department of Sociology, Florida State University, May 2004.