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Title: Wives' Relative Wages, Husbands' Paid Work Hours, and Wives' Labor-Force Exit
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Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons |
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Wives' Relative Wages, Husbands' Paid Work Hours, and Wives' Labor-Force Exit Journal of Marriage and Family 73,1 (February 2011): 250-264. Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00802.x/abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing, Inc. => Wiley Online Keyword(s): Economics of Gender; Event History; Exits; Labor Force Participation; Wage Differentials; Wage Levels; Wage Rates; Wives, Income Economic theories predict that women are more likely to exit the labor force if their partners' earnings are higher and if their own wage rate is lower. In this article, I use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 2,254) and discrete-time event-history analysis to show that wives' relative wages are more predictive of their exit than are their own or their husbands' absolute wages. In addition, I show that women married to men who work more than 45 hours per week are more likely to exit the labor force than are wives whose husbands' work approximately 40 hours per week. My findings highlight the need to examine how women's partners affect women's labor-force participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Marriage & Family is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons. "Wives' Relative Wages, Husbands' Paid Work Hours, and Wives' Labor-Force Exit." Journal of Marriage and Family 73,1 (February 2011): 250-264.
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