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Author: Meyer, Christine Siegwarth
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1. Meyer, Christine Siegwarth
Mukerjee, Swati
Black Teen Childbearing: Reexamining the Segmented Labor Market Hypothesis
Review of Black Political Economy 27,4 (Spring 2000): 27-42.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/k0cuv1efb22eynnw/
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Economic Association
Keyword(s): Black Family; Childbearing, Adolescent; Labor Market Segmentation; Mothers, Race; Racial Differences; Teenagers

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Examines relationship between racial difference in proportion of women who become teenage mothers and differences in labor options and choices; data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY); US.
Bibliography Citation
Meyer, Christine Siegwarth and Swati Mukerjee. "Black Teen Childbearing: Reexamining the Segmented Labor Market Hypothesis." Review of Black Political Economy 27,4 (Spring 2000): 27-42.
2. Meyer, Christine Siegwarth
Mukerjee, Swati
Investigating Dual Labor Market Theory for Women
Eastern Economic Journal 33,3 (Summer 2007): 301-316.
Also: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eej/journal/v33/n3/abs/eej200727a.html
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Human Capital Theory; Labor Market, Secondary; Skills; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Theory; Women

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Using a switching model with unknown regimes, this paper demonstrates that the women's labor market is significantly better described by two wage setting mechanisms than by one. Though the evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that women may be rationed into the sector with low wages, the sectors do not entirely conform to traditional notions of dual labor markets and to results from the men's labor market. Both sectors have different patterns of rewards to human capital formation which explains the different patterns of labor force attachment in the two sectors,
Bibliography Citation
Meyer, Christine Siegwarth and Swati Mukerjee. "Investigating Dual Labor Market Theory for Women." Eastern Economic Journal 33,3 (Summer 2007): 301-316.