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Title: Unemployment Trajectories across the Life Course: Gender, Economic Context, and Work-Family Responsibilities
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Damaske, Sarah Frech, Adrianne |
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Unemployment Trajectories across the Life Course: Gender, Economic Context, and Work-Family Responsibilities Presented: New York NY, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Life Course; Unemployment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A wealth of sociological knowledge investigates the causes and consequences of job loss and unemployment, yet we know little about men's and women's unemployment across the life course. It is unlikely all men and women are equally at risk to experience unemployment across their working years, yet no previous study has followed men and women longitudinally to determine whether "pathways" of unemployment risk emerge over time. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) to identify group-based trajectories of unemployment risk across ages 27-49, separately by gender among younger Baby-Boomers. We identify three trajectories of unemployment risk for men, and four for women. Although just over half of men (55%) and women (59%) spend much of their 20s, 30s, and 40s with little to no risk of unemployment, the remaining sizable minority vary both in the timing and in the level of their unemployment risk. We also identify the early life predictors, local labor market factors, and work-family correlates that put some men and women at greater risk of experiencing unemployment across the life course. |
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Damaske, Sarah and Adrianne Frech. "Unemployment Trajectories across the Life Course: Gender, Economic Context, and Work-Family Responsibilities." Presented: New York NY, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2019. |