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Title: Human Capital, Marital and Birth Timing, and the Postnatal Labor Force Participation of Married Women
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Greenstein, Theodore N. |
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Human Capital, Marital and Birth Timing, and the Postnatal Labor Force Participation of Married Women Journal of Family Issues 10,3 (September 1989): 359-382. Also: http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/10/3/359.abstract Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Birth Rate; Educational Attainment; First Birth; Human Capital Theory; Labor Force Participation; Marriage; Racial Differences; Wives, Income; Women; Work Experience; Work Reentry Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. An examination of how human capital factors (education, income, and prebirth labor force experience) and marriage and birth timing factors (marriage rates, childbirth rates, intervals between marriage and childbirth) affect female labor force participation and labor force reentry after childbirth, based on a review of the literature and data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience of Young Women, conducted by the US Bureau of the Census between 1968 and 1985 (N = 736 married women). Survival and three proportional hazards analyses show that prebirth work experience, prestigious occupation, being black, early age at marriage, early age at first birth, favorable attitudes toward working wives, high educational levels, high wife's income, and husband's low income, all contributed to early reentry to the paid labor force. Human capital factors had more effect on reentry than timing factors: high levels on human capital factors meant a much quicker return to the work force after the first birth, even if offset by marriage and birth timing factors that tend to delay reentry (eg, late marriage, late birth, and long interval between marriage and birth). Policy implications of these results are discussed. 2 Tables, 35 References. (Copyright 1990, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Greenstein, Theodore N. "Human Capital, Marital and Birth Timing, and the Postnatal Labor Force Participation of Married Women." Journal of Family Issues 10,3 (September 1989): 359-382.
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