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Title: Are Young Noncustodial Fathers Left Behind in the Labor Market?
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1. Robertson, John George
Are Young Noncustodial Fathers Left Behind in the Labor Market?
Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1995
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Alcohol Use; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Drug Use; Education; Employment; Fatherhood; Fathers; Health Factors; Human Capital; Human Capital Theory; Labor Supply; Marital Status; Parents, Non-Custodial; Parents, Single; Wage Rates

Are Young Noncustodial Fathers Left Behind in the Labor Market? The Study uses the 1990 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) for employment and earnings history and the NLSY for years 1982 to 1990 to establish father and marital status. The NLSY, a random sample of the U.S. population in 1979, has 5112 male respondents in 1990 between the ages of 25 to 32 years. First earnings are decomposed into the effects of working at all, hours worked, and the wage rate. Labor supply and human capital theory are used to understand the factors that account for differences in earnings between noncustodial fathers, custodial fathers and men without children. Custodial fathers earn 65% more and men without children earn 36% more than noncustodial fathers. Noncustodial fathers' lower wages are accounted for by lower levels of education and accumulated experience as well as lower scores on the Armed Service Qualification (AFQT) test. Noncustodial fathers are less likely to work and, when they worked, worked fewer hours in the year than custodial fathers. While the wage, unearned income, marriage premium, health problems, and use of drugs and alcohol account for some of the difference in hours worked, some difference in work effort remains to be explained. Dissertation Aabstracts International, VOL. 56-11A, Page 4557
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Robertson, John George. Are Young Noncustodial Fathers Left Behind in the Labor Market? Ph.D. Dissertation, Columbia University, 1995.