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Author: Rhodes, George F.
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Fleisher, Belton M. Rhodes, George F. |
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Fertility, Women's Wage Rates, and Labor Supply American Economic Review 69,1 (March 1979): 14-24. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1802493 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Men, Young Women Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Behavior; Children; Employment; Family Income; Fertility; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Wage Rates; Wages, Women Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Our empirical results encourage us to believe that a disaggregate multivariate approach is useful for the study of fertility and labor supply behavior. There is fairly persuasive evidence that the number of children demanded responds negatively to their cost and positively to family income, ceteris paribus. Our results suggest that declining family size will reduce the future discrepancy in male-female wage differentials. Increased labor force attachment may prove to be a more powerful force toward male-female wage equality than "equal opportunity" labor market legislation. |
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Fleisher, Belton M. and George F. Rhodes. "Fertility, Women's Wage Rates, and Labor Supply." American Economic Review 69,1 (March 1979): 14-24.
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Fleisher, Belton M. Rhodes, George F. |
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Individual Labor Force Decisions and Unemployment in Local Labor Markets Review of Economics and Statistics 61,4 (November 1979): 629-634. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1935801 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Census of Population; Discouraged Workers; Gender Differences; Job Search; Labor Force Participation; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The net discouraged worker effect of unemployment on labor force participation for two important labor force groups is shown to be smaller than estimates based on published aggregate Census data indicate. Our explanation of the relative magnitudes of estimates derived from cross-section and time series data in terms of aggregation bias seems to fit the case of married women better than that of married men. |
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Fleisher, Belton M. and George F. Rhodes. "Individual Labor Force Decisions and Unemployment in Local Labor Markets." Review of Economics and Statistics 61,4 (November 1979): 629-634.
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Fleisher, Belton M. Rhodes, George F. |
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Unemployment and Labor Force Participation of Married Men and Women: A Simultaneous Model Review of Economics and Statistics 58,4 (November 1976): 398-406. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1935871 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Husbands; Local Labor Market; Simultaneity; Unemployment; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The authors develop and estimate a simultaneous model of labor force participation and unemployment rates. The coefficients of the labor force participation rates in the structural unemployment equation are negative and statistically significant. There is also evidence that the unemployment component associated with demand is correlated with labor force participation. The results suggest implications for policies based on concepts such as "hidden unemployment" and "full employment G.N.P." At the local labor market level, the results indicate policies designed to raise labor force participation through stimulating aggregate demand will not have a substantial effect on local labor forces. |
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Bibliography Citation
Fleisher, Belton M. and George F. Rhodes. "Unemployment and Labor Force Participation of Married Men and Women: A Simultaneous Model." Review of Economics and Statistics 58,4 (November 1976): 398-406.
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