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Title: Job Investment, Actual and Expected Labor Supply, and the Earnings of Young Women
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Garvey, Nancy |
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Job Investment, Actual and Expected Labor Supply, and the Earnings of Young Women Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1980 Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Children; Earnings; Fertility; Human Capital Theory; Job Tenure; Schooling; Vocational Education; Wage Gap; Work Experience; Work History Using human capital theory, this thesis investigates the relationship between patterns of work experience, actual and planned and the wages of young women. The results support the hypothesis that more attached workers invest more in general training and consequently earn more than less attached workers. The initial earnings capacity of more attached women is also found to be greater. Consequently, their wage profiles are not only steeper but also consistently above the wage profiles of less attached women. In addition, the labor force withdrawal associated with the birth of the first child is found to significantly decrease earnings; the size of this depreciation effect diminishes after women return to work and are able to restore their previous skills and make additional investment. Young men were found to invest more than young women in both general and specific training, but the relative magnitude of their investments is most similar to that of young women with stronger lifetime labor force attachment. Finally, very little of the wage gap between young women and men is explained by differences in work experience or investments. |
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Garvey, Nancy. Job Investment, Actual and Expected Labor Supply, and the Earnings of Young Women. Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1980. |