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Title: How Much Does the Long Term Cost of a Work Interruption Influence Women's Employment Behavior Surrounding First Birth?
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Noonan, Mary Christine |
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How Much Does the Long Term Cost of a Work Interruption Influence Women's Employment Behavior Surrounding First Birth? Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Economic Changes/Recession; Employment; Maternal Employment; Mothers, Behavior; Mothers, Income; Re-employment; Wages, Women; Work Reentry Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Economic theory states that a woman will allocate time to employment only if the value of her time in the labor force exceeds the value she places on her time at home. Previous research examining women's employment behavior around the time of childbirth has measured the value of market time, or the cost of a work interruption, with current earnings. This measure is incomplete, however, because the cost of a work interruption involves more than simply the loss of current earnings. Future earnings will also be reduced as a result of a work interruption because of wage depreciation and forgone wage appreciation occurring during the interruption period. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I create a measure of the long-term cost of an employment break for each woman into the sample, and then test whether it predicts a woman's employment behavior surrounding the first birth. |
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Noonan, Mary Christine. "How Much Does the Long Term Cost of a Work Interruption Influence Women's Employment Behavior Surrounding First Birth?" Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March 2001. |