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Author: Brown, Clair
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1. Brown, Clair
How 'Economic' are Women's Work Decisions?
Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1982
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Employment; Housework/Housewives; Wages; Wages, Reservation; Wages, Women; Work Reentry

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Work decisions for women (aged 37-51 in l974) are simulated assuming that women maximize the economic return to work within an institutional framework. In addition to the wage test, which measures the potential market wage against the value of housework time, a minimum income test is used. Within this framework, only one-third of the women's work decisions were consistent with the efficiency test based on wages. Over half of the decisions were market-oriented (i.e., women were working more than predicted) and one-tenth were home-oriented. With the income test added, three out of seven women's work decisions were economically rational and one-third were market-oriented.
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Brown, Clair. "How 'Economic' are Women's Work Decisions?" Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1982.