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Title: Determinants of Female Reentrant Unemployment
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1. Jones, Ethel B.
Determinants of Female Reentrant Unemployment
Report, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1983
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Keyword(s): Occupations, Female; Unemployment; Work Reentry

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This work questions the typical assumption that a woman's reentrance into the labor force is automatically accompanied by a spell of unemployment. The probability of reentrance and unemployment jointly happening is estimated and personal and labor market characteristics that lead to unemployment upon reentry are identified. The probability of unemployment upon reentry is estimated to be one-third. The reentrants more likely to experience unemployment are women of less education and less work experience, migrants, persons without young children, blacks, and those not identified with a particular type of work activity as indicated by occupational certification. The findings suggest both that simple policy prescriptions are not feasible and that continuation of the rise in labor force participation of women may not increase female unemployment rates.
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Jones, Ethel B. "Determinants of Female Reentrant Unemployment." Report, Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 1983.