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Pfeffer, Jeffrey Ross, Jerry |
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The Effects of Marriage and a Working Wife on Occupational and Wage Attainment Administrative Science Quarterly 27,1 (March 1982): 66-80. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2392546 Cohort(s): Older Men Publisher: Cornell University Press Keyword(s): Control; Earnings, Wives; Marital Status; Occupational Status; Occupations; Wages, Women In a 1966 study of the NLS Older Men cohort, the positive effects of being married and the negative effects of having a working wife for both occupational status and wage attainment were observed most strongly for professional and managerial subsamples. These results are consistent with both conformance-to-social expectations and wife-as-career resource arguments, but not as consistent with either human capital/market-signaling or distributive justice arguments. The effects of specific organizational tenure, education, and socioeconomic origins on both forms of attainment tended to be stronger for managers than for professionals, and stronger for professionals than for blue-collar respondents. These results are consistent with the different needs for control, given the uncertainty of evaluation, performance, and importance of the jobs (higher for managers and professionals than for others), and the different mechanisms for achieving control. Professional control is achieved more through extraorganizational mechanisms, while managerial control is achieved through background, certification, and tenure, which tend to be associated with compliance to the normative structure. |
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Pfeffer, Jeffrey and Jerry Ross. "The Effects of Marriage and a Working Wife on Occupational and Wage Attainment." Administrative Science Quarterly 27,1 (March 1982): 66-80.
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