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Title: Labor Force Response of Career vs. Noncareer Married Women to the Unemployment Rate
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Stephan, Paula E. |
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Labor Force Response of Career vs. Noncareer Married Women to the Unemployment Rate Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1977 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Children; Discouraged Workers; Earnings; Employment; Unemployment; Wives; Work Experience The objective of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that because of job experience and a commitment to the labor force, the current labor force status of married women who have a career (defined as married women who have been working 70 percent or more of the time since marriage) is not responsive to changes in the local employment rate. The analysis uses data from the 1972 survey of the NLS of Mature Women. Logit techniques are used to analyze the labor force participation of career vs. noncareer women. It was found, using a "traditional" specification of the discouraged worker problem (which excludes experience) that career women as a whole are not discouraged while noncareer women appeared discouraged. The results are not paralleled when division is made by race. This paper also hypothesized that the amount of discouragement present depends upon the amount of experience that the woman in the labor market has. When experience is included with the unemployment rate in the interaction term, there is support for this hypothesis. However, when experience is also included directly in the specification of the labor force participation equation, the coefficients on the local unemployment rate--and the above mentioned interaction term--are no longer significant. |
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Stephan, Paula E. "Labor Force Response of Career vs. Noncareer Married Women to the Unemployment Rate." Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1977. |