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Title: Does Women's Part-Time Experience Limit Mobility
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1. Collins, Nancy
Does Women's Part-Time Experience Limit Mobility
Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2000
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Earnings, Wives; Job Aspirations; Life Course; Occupational Aspirations; Part-Time Work; Wives, Work; Work Experience

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This study is an effort to add to the existing, though scant, literature on the labor force mobility of women working part-time, the primary participants in part-time work. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) spanning the years 1979 to 1998, this study focuses on how women's accrual of part-time work experience over the life course affects their ability to move between different levels of labor market attachment (i.e. part-time versus full-time and non-work). No prior study distinguishes between choice and constraint in women's participation in part-time work. This study's inclusion of data on attitudes toward women's roles within the family and work is a first attempt to control for a woman's taste for part-time employment. This study expects to find that even after controlling for tastes and ability, participation in part-time work constrains a woman's ability to enter full-time work.
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Collins, Nancy. "Does Women's Part-Time Experience Limit Mobility." Presented: Los Angeles, CA, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2000.