Search Results
Title: Projecting Female Labor Force Participation From Sex-Role Attitudes
Resulting in 1 citation.
| 1. |
Waite, Linda J. |
|
Projecting Female Labor Force Participation From Sex-Role Attitudes Social Science Research 7,4 (December 1978): 299-318. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0049089X78900169 Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women Publisher: Academic Press, Inc. Keyword(s): Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Life Cycle Research; Sex Roles; Women's Roles; Work Attitudes In this paper, evidence on the casual connection between employment of women and sex-role attitudes is presented and evaluated utilizing data from the Mature and Young Women cohorts. The effects of sex-role attitudes on labor force participation are reviewed and changes in sex-role attitudes during the next 15 years are projected. Information on the relationship between sex-role attitudes and labor market activity is used to make tentative projections of female labor force participation to 1990. ... The concept of the "family life cycle" provides a valuable context within which to study labor force participation of married women. This article tests the hypothesis that the process by which wives make the decision to supply labor to the market varies with position in that life cycle. An examination is made of market activity during the early stages of the cycle, from marriage through the completion of childbearing. The effects of the most important determinants of married women's labor force involvement are found to depend on life-cycle stage. Wives who consider their families complete tend to be more responsive to family financial circumstances and the characteristics of the labor market in which they live than do childless women or mothers who expect more children. History of employment is found to be most important in predicting current market activity for mothers who expect more children and least important for those who do not. |
|
|
Bibliography Citation
Waite, Linda J. "Projecting Female Labor Force Participation From Sex-Role Attitudes." Social Science Research 7,4 (December 1978): 299-318.
|