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Title: Working for Pay or Raising a Family? Work Expectations and Market Outcomes in Two Cohorts of American Women
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Garcia-Manglano, Javier |
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Working for Pay or Raising a Family? Work Expectations and Market Outcomes in Two Cohorts of American Women Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, University of London, Institute of Education, November 2012 Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Institute of Education, University of London Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Life Course; Occupational Attainment; Occupational Choice Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Despite the progress made in women’s access to employment opportunities, today a non-negligible proportion of women specialize in childcare and family work, engaging in market work in a part time, discontinuous basis. This study seeks a better understanding of the mechanisms underlying women’s weak employment trajectories. During the 1970s, new norms and expectations regarding women’s work spread rapidly in the United States. Taking advantage of this intense period of social change, I exploit variation in work expectations across two cohorts of American women, early and late baby boomers, who reached young adulthood before and after the onset of the gender revolution, respectively. Using data from two National Longitudinal Surveys –NLS-Young Women (1968) and NLS-Youth (1979)– I explore the mechanisms through which low work expectations in young adulthood shape human capital investments and lead some women to low and intermittent working trajectories across their adult life courses. Preliminary results show that, among women, holding low work expectations in young-adulthood is associated with lower human capital investments and a higher likelihood of entering female-dominated jobs. Low work expectations in young adulthood also lead to weaker employment trajectories and lower occupational attainment across the life course. |
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Garcia-Manglano, Javier. "Working for Pay or Raising a Family? Work Expectations and Market Outcomes in Two Cohorts of American Women." Presented: London, England, Centre for Longitudinal Studies Conference, University of London, Institute of Education, November 2012. |