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Title: Health Insurance, Employment-sector Choices and Job Attachment Patterns of Men and Women
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1. Velamuri, Malathi Rao
Health Insurance, Employment-sector Choices and Job Attachment Patterns of Men and Women
Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2004.
Also: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/1450
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Texas at Austin
Keyword(s): Expectations/Intentions; Job Promotion; Job Turnover; Work Attachment

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In the fourth chapter (joint with Richard Prisinzano), we examine differences in job turnover patterns between men and women. We expect to see job turnover when promotion opportunities on the job are low. Accordingly, we study the relationship between individuals' expectations of promotion on their jobs and their turnover behavior. We examine how this relationship varies between men and women and between more and less experienced workers. It is our hypothesis that early on in their careers, women who are strongly committed to a career are more likely to stay on in their jobs, regardless of promotion opportunities, in a bid to signal their commitment to the labor force. However, once women have acquired adequate labor market experience and their commitment to the labor force is no longer in question, we predict that their turnover behavior will be more responsive to career opportunities and will be similar to that of men. Using the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we find that men and women differ in their response to promotion expectations. Specifically, we find that early in their career women with low promotion expectations are more likely to stay on a job than corresponding men. We also find that this difference diminishes with experience.
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Velamuri, Malathi Rao. Health Insurance, Employment-sector Choices and Job Attachment Patterns of Men and Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, University of Texas at Austin, 2004..