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Title: Marital Status, Children and Women's Labor Market Choices
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Duncan, Kevin Craig Prus, Mark J. Sandy, Jonathan |
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Marital Status, Children and Women's Labor Market Choices Journal of Socio-Economics 22,3 (Fall 1993): 277-288. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/105353579390013B Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Human Capital Theory; Labor Force Participation; Marital Status; Modeling, Probit; Occupational Choice This article provides a test of the human capital prediction that women with more labor force intermittence hold occupations characterized by lower earnings penalties for intermittence. By using marital and family status as proxies of labor market commitment the authors find that, on average, married women with and without children spend more time out of the labor force than never-married, childless women. Results from earnings regressions fail to indicate that the occupations they hold are characterized by significantly lower penalties for time not working. However, results from a probit model indicate that a woman's marital status, the presence of children, and the level of the husband's education significantly affect the probability of working. The results reported here suggest that human capital theory explains a woman's decision to work, but does not necessarily explain her occupational choice. |
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Duncan, Kevin Craig, Mark J. Prus and Jonathan Sandy. "Marital Status, Children and Women's Labor Market Choices." Journal of Socio-Economics 22,3 (Fall 1993): 277-288.
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