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Author: Stephan, Paula E.
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Stephan, Paula E. |
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Labor Force Response of Career vs. Noncareer Married Women to the Unemployment Rate Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1977 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Children; Discouraged Workers; Earnings; Employment; Unemployment; Wives; Work Experience The objective of this paper is to examine the hypothesis that because of job experience and a commitment to the labor force, the current labor force status of married women who have a career (defined as married women who have been working 70 percent or more of the time since marriage) is not responsive to changes in the local employment rate. The analysis uses data from the 1972 survey of the NLS of Mature Women. Logit techniques are used to analyze the labor force participation of career vs. noncareer women. It was found, using a "traditional" specification of the discouraged worker problem (which excludes experience) that career women as a whole are not discouraged while noncareer women appeared discouraged. The results are not paralleled when division is made by race. This paper also hypothesized that the amount of discouragement present depends upon the amount of experience that the woman in the labor market has. When experience is included with the unemployment rate in the interaction term, there is support for this hypothesis. However, when experience is also included directly in the specification of the labor force participation equation, the coefficients on the local unemployment rate--and the above mentioned interaction term--are no longer significant. |
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Bibliography Citation
Stephan, Paula E. "Labor Force Response of Career vs. Noncareer Married Women to the Unemployment Rate." Final Report, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Evaluation, and Research, U.S. Department of Labor, 1977. |
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Stephan, Paula E. Schroeder, Larry D. |
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Career Decisions and Labor Force Participation of Married Women In: Women in the Labor Market. CB Lloyd, et al., eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1979 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Columbia University Press Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Husbands, Income; Schooling; Wives Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This paper argues that the treatment of women as a homogenous group when analyzing labor force participation decisions is likely to result in a loss of information because it ignores career commitments. It was hypothesized that variables such as education, children, husband's permanent income, and race could explain observed differences in the commitment of women to the labor force. A sample of married women, husbands present, from the 1967 NLS of Young Women, was used to test this hypothesis using as a measure of career the observance that women had been in the labor force for at least 70 percent of the time between marriage and 1967. The outcome of a logit regression analysis suggested that these variables were significantly related to the probability of being a career woman. The authors then explored how segmentation of the sample into career and noncareer components might affect the outcome of the usual labor force participation analysis of women at a single point in time. It was argued that transitory impacts upon husband's earnings would probably affect the participation of those without a career commitment, but that it would have no effect upon those women with career commitments. In general, a noncareer woman acted in a way very similar to the conclusions reached in the traditional studies of labor force participation of married women, spouse present. For those with commitments, on the other hand, neither the number of children, the presence of teenagers, nor the earnings of the husband were related to their current labor force status. |
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Bibliography Citation
Stephan, Paula E. and Larry D. Schroeder. "Career Decisions and Labor Force Participation of Married Women" In: Women in the Labor Market. CB Lloyd, et al., eds. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1979
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