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Title: Why Do(n't) They Leave?: Motherhood and Women's Job Mobility
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1. Looze, Jessica
Why Do(n't) They Leave?: Motherhood and Women's Job Mobility
Social Science Research 65 (July 2017): 47-59.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X15300119
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Exits; Labor Force Participation; Motherhood; Racial Differences; Wage Growth

Although the relationship between motherhood and women's labor market exits has received a great deal of popular and empirical attention in recent years, far less is known about the relationship between motherhood and women's job changes. In this paper, I use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) (NLSY79) and Cox regression models to examine how motherhood influences the types of job changes and employment exits women make and how this varies by racial-ethnic group. I find preschool-age children are largely immobilizing for white women, as they discourage these women from making the types of voluntary job changes that are often associated with wage growth. No such effects were found for Black or Hispanic women.
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Looze, Jessica. "Why Do(n't) They Leave?: Motherhood and Women's Job Mobility." Social Science Research 65 (July 2017): 47-59.