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Title: Marital Status, Early Childbearing and Income Achievement of Mature Women
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Borker, Susan Makarushka, Julia Loughlin |
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Marital Status, Early Childbearing and Income Achievement of Mature Women Mimeo, Syracuse University, 1977 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Author Keyword(s): Behavior; Childbearing; Discrimination, Sex; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Marriage; Occupational Status; Teenagers; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This analysis resulted in three major findings. First, the characteristics of the women in the labor force are changing. Mature women employed in 1972 have more education and higher occupational status than those employed in 1967. Women are investing in educational programs and career development at a much later age than is "normal." Second, among women there are differences in the extent to which they are obtaining incomes commensurate with their educations and occupations. While factors such as discrimination affect all women, we find it most difficult to predict the incomes of one group, married white women. This suggests that their own behavior is effective. Third, women who become mothers before their eighteenth birthday earn less than other women in their middle years. This is primarily because of the effect of adolescent child-bearing on high school completion. For these women, the economic effects of the timing of childbirth are negative and persistent. |
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Borker, Susan and Julia Loughlin Makarushka. "Marital Status, Early Childbearing and Income Achievement of Mature Women." Mimeo, Syracuse University, 1977. |