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Author: Hunt, Sally North
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1. Hunt, Sally North
Women's Labor Force Participation and Family Financial Resources
Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Women's University, 1982
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Family Resources; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Labor Force Participation; Mobility, Social

This study was designed to investigate the association between selected socioeconomic and labor force variables and family financial resource variables. Objectives were to: (1) categorize career patterns of a representative sample of mature women in the U.S.; and (2) determine effects of career patterns and selected socioeconomic characteristics of women on family financial resources. Data for this investigation were derived from the NLS. Responses from 3,942 Mature Women (ages 30-44) who participated in the surveys from 1967 to 1977 were used. Chi-square analysis was performed to determine relationships between the components of family financial resources and labor force attachment, race, highest grade completed, total family income, respondent's income, health, age, number of dependents, marital status, and residence of the mature women. Using the .05 level of significance, labor force attachment did not have a significant relationship with the financial resource variables. However, significant relationships were found between: (1) net worth and the variables of race, highest grade completed, total family income, health, number of dependents, marital status, and residence; (2) dollar amount in savings/checking accounts and the variables of race, highest grade completed, total family income, respondent's income, health, age, number of dependents, marital status, and residence; (3) dollar amount of U.S. Savings Bonds and residence; and (4) market value of stocks, bonds, or mutual funds and total family income. Multiple regression procedures revealed that race, total family income, age, number of dependents, and residence were significant predictor variables for net worth, using the .05 level of significance. The combination of race, total family income, number of dependents, marital status, and highest grade completed accounted for twenty-two percent of the variance in savings/ checking accounts. Total family income, number of dependents, and residence accounted for six percent of the variance in U.S. Savings Bonds. Twelve percent of the variance in stocks, bonds, or mutual funds was explained by race, total family income, age, and number of dependents. Labor force attachment was not found to contribute significantly to the explanation of variance in the family financial resource variables.
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Hunt, Sally North. Women's Labor Force Participation and Family Financial Resources. Ph.D. Dissertation, Texas Women's University, 1982.