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Title: Impact of the Unemployment Rate on Labor Force Entries and Exits
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Blau, Francine D. |
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Impact of the Unemployment Rate on Labor Force Entries and Exits In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington DC: U.S. GPO, 1978 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Discouraged Workers; Exits; Family Influences; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Turnover; Unemployment The author uses NLS data of women 34-48 to reexamine the impact of the unemployment rate on the labor force participation of married women. The results show that the discouraged worker effect is dominant among white women, while the additional worker effect predominates among blacks. For both races, the unemployment rate has a stronger impact on labor force entries than on labor force exits. These findings suggest that the cyclical sensitivity of the labor force participation of married women is a result of economic conditions affecting the timing of labor force entry. In the future, the trend toward increasing labor force participation of women will eventually mean that fewer individuals will be outside the labor force, which would cause the participation rates of married women to become less cyclically sensitive (i.e., the impact of entrants on overall participation rates will be reduced). |
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Blau, Francine D. "Impact of the Unemployment Rate on Labor Force Entries and Exits" In: Women's Changing Roles at Home and on the Job: National Commission for Manpower Policy, Special Report No: 26. Washington DC: U.S. GPO, 1978
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