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Title: Gender Differences in Labor Force Participation: Multilevel Analyses
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1. Cotter, David A.
Gender Differences in Labor Force Participation: Multilevel Analyses
Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 1999
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Demographics

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In this study, we utilize multilevel techniques to analyze the effect of the demand for female labor on gender differences in labor force participation across metropolitan area (MA) labor markets after controlling for micro-level factors known to influence participation. We develop measures of the gendered demand for labor by indexing the degree to which the occupations in a labor market are skewed toward usually male or female occupations. Logistic regression techniques are used to compute standard micro-level models of labor force participation for young adults from the NLSY and 1990 PUMS. We then test to what extent gender differences in labor force participation co-vary with our measure of the demand for female labor across MAs. In both the NLSY and PUMS data, a higher demand for female labor is significantly related to a smaller gender penalty in the odds of labor force participation, even after extensive micro controls.
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Cotter, David A. "Gender Differences in Labor Force Participation: Multilevel Analyses." Presented: New York, NY, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 1999.