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Title: Lifetime Participation in the Labor Force and Unemployment Among Mature Women
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Sandell, Steven H. |
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Lifetime Participation in the Labor Force and Unemployment Among Mature Women Report, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1976 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: Center for Human Resource Research Keyword(s): Children; Educational Attainment; Family Resources; First Birth; Husbands; Labor Supply; Marriage; Modeling; Wages; Wives, Income In this paper the economic model used to explain the labor force participation of married women at a point in time has been adapted to study the determinants of lifetime participation. Different influences were observed for the periods before and after the first child was born. While greater education of the husband is associated with lower labor force participation of women in the post-natal period, women whose husbands have greater-than-average educational attainment worked a greater proportion of the years available before the birth of their first offspring. Although the net positive effect of the wife's potential wage on her labor force participation reported here is consistent with previous research, it was found that the size of the wife's own wage effect was slightly smaller than the husband's wage effect on the wife's labor supply. In addition, inclusion of variables which purport to measure the taste of the women for market work reduces the observed positive effect of the wife's potential wage on her post-natal labor supply. |
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Sandell, Steven H. "Lifetime Participation in the Labor Force and Unemployment Among Mature Women." Report, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1976. |