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Title: The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Comment
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Mincer, Jacob Ofek, Haim |
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The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Comment Journal of Political Economy 87,1 (February 1979): 197-201. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1832218 Cohort(s): Mature Women Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Schooling; Wages; Wives; Work History Two important corollaries of our finding are: (1) in the analysis of long-term (cohort or "lifetime") labor supply of married women corner phenomena are negligible; and (2) even though their current participation rate is 100 percent, married women observed working in a given survey cannot be viewed as permanent labor force participants in the same way as other groups (say adult men) whose average participation rate in the survey is close to 100 percent. Variation in length of previous work experience among currently working married women is quite large. This variation among married women is an important factor in their wage dispersion, and the shorter average work experience is a factor in producing an average wage which is less than the average wage of men or of single women. |
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Mincer, Jacob and Haim Ofek. "The Distribution of Lifetime Labor Force Participation of Married Women: Comment." Journal of Political Economy 87,1 (February 1979): 197-201.
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