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Title: Racial Variations in the Effect of Fertility on Women's Employment: Declining or Enduring Effects?
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Florian, Sandra M. |
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Racial Variations in the Effect of Fertility on Women's Employment: Declining or Enduring Effects? Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Fertility; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Racial Differences; Work Experience Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using fixed effects models and data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, NLSY 1979–2012, this study assesses the effect of fertility on women's labor force participation and cumulative years of work experience by race. The analyses reveal declining effects of children on labor force participation over time, but enduring effects on cumulative years of full-time work experience. Children discourage full-time employment during the 20s and 30s, but encourage employment by the early 50s. These effects are stronger among Whites than Latinas, however, motherhood does not deter employment among Blacks. Children reduce years of full-time work experience regardless of race; these effects become evident by the 30s, being more pronounced for Whites, Latinas, and women with two or more children. White mothers' advantage in work experience results from gains in part-time work. Findings reveal that aggregating these effects over time and across racial groups obscures these significant variations. |
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Florian, Sandra M. "Racial Variations in the Effect of Fertility on Women's Employment: Declining or Enduring Effects?" Presented: Washington DC, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, March-April 2016. |