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Title: Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women's Nonemployment
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Corcoran, Mary E. |
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Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women's Nonemployment In: Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. R. Freeman, et al., eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Behavior; High School Completion/Graduates; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Teenagers; Unemployment; Wages; Work Attitudes; Work History The author examines how lack of employment during the teenage years affects future employment and wages. The results indicate considerable persistence in the women's employment behavior, which in part may be due to unmeasured individual differences influencing a woman's propensity to work. Evidence also suggests that early nonemployment is associated with lower future wages. For white women, wage losses associated with prolonged nonwork are greatest when it occurs at the beginning of their careers. For teenage women with less than 14 years of schooling, nonemployment is pervasive and prolonged. It is associated with a lower probability of employment in the short run and with lower wages throughout women's work careers. Thus, early employment behavior has lasting implications for women's future economic career. |
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Corcoran, Mary E. "Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women's Nonemployment" In: Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences. R. Freeman, et al., eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1982
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