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Title: Labor Market Transitions of Young Women Over the Early Life Course: Age Pattern, Life Cycle Variation, and Racial Differences
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Phang, Hanam S. |
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Labor Market Transitions of Young Women Over the Early Life Course: Age Pattern, Life Cycle Variation, and Racial Differences Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Childbearing, Adolescent; Education, Secondary; Employment History; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Demographics; Life Course; Life Cycle Research; Racial Differences; Simultaneity; Transitional Programs; Women's Education; Women's Studies Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using detailed panel data (i.e., NLSY 1979-1991), we examine the dynamic process of labor market transitions for young women during their young adulthood. Transitions between the states of the labor force are analyzed using multistate life tables, in which labor market and family transitions are estimated simultaneously. We find that black women in the aggregate are less likely to be employed (or in the A labor force) and more likely to be nonemployed than white women during early adulthood (i.e., at ages 16-34). With first childbirth controlled, black women, as expected from past observations, are in the labor force in a slightly higher proportion than white women during the same age period. But, we find that the proportion employed is actually lower among blacks than among whites due to blacks' higher proportion unemployed. Even though, the racial differential in employment decreases with age among women with more than high school education, it persists among women with high school or less education. By estimating the conditional probabilities of transition between the states of the labor force, this study shows that the major component of the racial differential in employment (or in nonemployment) is in the process of entering rather than exiting employment: black women, even if in 1? the labor force, are less likely employed and, if unemployed, more likely to withdraw from the labor force than their white counterparts. As a result, black women spend considerably more time nonemployed and less time employed than white women over the early life course. |
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Phang, Hanam S. "Labor Market Transitions of Young Women Over the Early Life Course: Age Pattern, Life Cycle Variation, and Racial Differences." Presented: San Francisco, CA, Population Association of America Meetings, 1995. |