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Title: Factors Determining the Number of Hours Supplied by Married Women
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Kim, Sookon |
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Factors Determining the Number of Hours Supplied by Married Women Presented: Toronto, Canada, Population Association of America Meetings, 1972 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Earnings; Family Resources; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors causing variations in number of hours of labor supplied by married women. Both black and white women were studied. The variations in hours supplied are regressed upon nine independent variables: actual or estimated wage rate, other family income, husband's earning capacity relative to that of wife's capacity, home wage as a proxy for child-care burden, respondent's attitude toward propriety of women working, husband's attitude toward wife's working, respondent's health limitation, unemployment rate in the local labor market, and index of demand for female labor in the local area. Except for the unemployment rate, the effects of all of the variables were found to be statistically significant. Relative to the cross-substitution effect of earnings capacity of the husband and wife, it is argued that the higher the relative earning capacity of the husband over that of the wife, the fewer hours of labor will be supplied by the wife. The home-wage scale was found to be the most powerful explanatory variable. It accounted for about 6 percent of the variance in the dependent variable, whereas all the variables combined explained 19 percent, for both color groups. An important intercolor difference was found in that the black women were less sensitive to market wage rates but more sensitive to variations in demand for female labor than their white counterparts. |
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Bibliography Citation
Kim, Sookon. "Factors Determining the Number of Hours Supplied by Married Women." Presented: Toronto, Canada, Population Association of America Meetings, 1972. |