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Title: Working Wives and the Life Cycle
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Waite, Linda J. |
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Working Wives and the Life Cycle American Journal of Sociology 86,2 (September 1980): 272-294. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2778665 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Children; Family Resources; Life Cycle Research; Schooling; Wives; Work History 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 responsible 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. |
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Waite, Linda J. "Working Wives and the Life Cycle." American Journal of Sociology 86,2 (September 1980): 272-294.
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