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Title: Changes in the Employment Continuity of Succeeding Cohorts of Young Women
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Rexroat, Cynthia |
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Changes in the Employment Continuity of Succeeding Cohorts of Young Women Work and Occupations 19,1 (February 1992): 18-34. Also: http://wox.sagepub.com/content/19/1/18.abstract Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Employment; Labor Force Participation; Life Cycle Research; Women; Work Attachment; Work Histories Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A study examined employment continuity for three succeeding cohorts of women in their 20s who would be typically experiencing early life-cycle transitions to marriage and parenthood. Using the NLS of Young Women, women's work attachment was analyzed over 5-year periods during the 1970s. Two competing explanations were presented to account for the expected increase in women's employment continuity: (1) An increasing number of women have characteristics traditionally conducive to employment. (2) The employment behavior of those who have typically worked intermittently has increasingly resembled that of women who have typically worked more continuously. The results showed that the impact of behavioral change was far more significant than changes in women's characteristics. Traditional models of labor force participation should be respecified to account for the effects of social change. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Rexroat, Cynthia. "Changes in the Employment Continuity of Succeeding Cohorts of Young Women." Work and Occupations 19,1 (February 1992): 18-34.
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