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Title: Patterns and Predictors of Women's Employment during Early Parenthood: An Application of the Group-Based Trajectory Method
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Hynes, Kathryn |
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Patterns and Predictors of Women's Employment during Early Parenthood: An Application of the Group-Based Trajectory Method Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2003 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Age at First Birth; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Logit; Mothers, Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research on womens employment during early parenthood frequently focuses on the correlates and consequences of decisions at a particular time, such as around a birth. This paper applies a new group-based trajectory method (Nagin 1999) in order to examine womens employment trajectories across the period of early parenthood. We focus on six distinct trajectories around first and second births that span the employment continuum. Only about half of the mothers in our sample followed trajectories characterized by either continuous employment through the period surrounding a birth or by a sharp decline in employment closely corresponding to the birth event (whether followed by a rapid return or not). Preliminary descriptive analyses indicate that age at first birth, income and education are strongly associated with different employment trajectories. Our next step is to estimate multinomial logistic regression models, examining predictors of trajectory type. |
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Hynes, Kathryn. "Patterns and Predictors of Women's Employment during Early Parenthood: An Application of the Group-Based Trajectory Method." Presented: Minneapolis, MN, Population Association of America Meetings, May 2003. |