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Title: The Interrelations of Young Women's Marriage and Employment Outcomes
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Klawitter, Marieka Marjorie |
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The Interrelations of Young Women's Marriage and Employment Outcomes Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Childbearing; Employment; Hispanics; Marriage; Modeling, Probit; Racial Differences; Wives This thesis explores linkages between marriage and employment for young women. Marriage could substitute for a woman's market work by adding financial resources to her household. A marriage-employment "trade-off" may result, with women who are more likely to marry being less likely to be employed. Differences in values or opportunities could also link marriage with employment outcomes even prior to marriage. The major part of the thesis is an empirical study of marriage and employment for young women. The data come from the National Longitudinal Survey Youth Cohort in 1979. Bivariate Probit models jointly estimate marriage and employment outcomes. Using the 1985 survey year as a cross section, there is evidence of a marriage-employment trade-off for Nonblack-Nonhispanic women through the impact of observed and unobserved characteristics. For Black and Hispanic women, however, there is no clear pattern of marriage-employment linkage. In the second part of the empirical analysis, women who marry during the panel are compared with those still unmarried in 1985. Prior to marriage, women who will marry are more likely to be employed than are women who will not marry--even after controlling for a set of observed characteris- tics. Results suggest that women who marry are not the kind unlikely to be employed outside of marriage because of unobservable factors. For Black women, the higher employment rates for married women may be the result of stable individual differences in opportunities or values outweighing a trade-off through child-bearing. |
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Klawitter, Marieka Marjorie. The Interrelations of Young Women's Marriage and Employment Outcomes. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992. |