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Shafer, Emily Fitzgibbons – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Wages, Spouses, Females, Employment Patterns
Warunsiri, Sasiwimon – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation is composed of three studies on Thai labor markets using a pseudo-panel data set: The first chapter estimates the rate of return to education in Thailand, while treating the endogeneity bias common to estimates from data on individuals. Pseudo-panel data are constructed from repeated cross sections of Labor Force Surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Income, Correlation
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Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan M. – Journal of Human Resources, 2010
After a long decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We examine how changes in Social Security rules affected these trends. We attribute only a small portion of the decline from the 1960s-80s to the increasing generosity of Social…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Retirement, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth – Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, 2008
Recent trends in the labor force participation of women have brought much public attention to the issue of women opting out. This paper explores the decision of working women to exit the labor market at a time of major transition--the birth of a child--utilizing linked vital statistics, administrative employer, and state welfare records. The…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Probability
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Rhee, Jong M. – Phylon, 1974
Documents shifts and changes in participation in industry for the black labor force in the South from 1940 to 1970. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Labor Force
Cohen, Wilbur J. – 1967
One of a series of proceedings of seminars on Manpower Policy and Program, this report presents a condensed transcript of a seminar. Dr. Wilbur J. Cohen discussed women in the labor force today, future trends in women's employment, future demands for workers, health personnel shortages, educational opportunities, homemaker services needed, and…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Labor Force
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Tsong, Peter Z. W. – Phylon, 1974
An examination of the redistribution of the black population associated with changes in the population of labor force age and participation in the South as compared with the non-White or the nation as a whole. The sources of growth and change in the labor force between 1940 and 1970 are explored with respect to changes at the total level, by sex,…
Descriptors: Black Employment, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Labor Force
Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade – 1970
The purpose of this study is to explain the changing and increasing participation of females in the American labor force during this century, especially since 1940. Although the pre-1940 changes are smaller and may be attributable to improvements in census enumeration techniques, there has been a significant increase since 1940 in participation…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
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Devens, Richard M. – Monthly Labor Review, 1977
This annotated bibliography reflects relevant issues covered in the accompanying article in this issue (CE 506 866). It presents a general outline of recent literature on labor force participation, including underlying secular movements and cyclical analysis. (MF)
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business Cycles, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
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Haber, Sheldon – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1973
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Industrial Structure, Labor Economics
Ueno, Chizuko – 1983
The changing role of Japanese women can be seen in the stages of a domestic labor debate which occurred at three different times in the past 30 years. The first debate began with Ayako Ishigaki's (1955) insistence that women should have a job outside the home. Wartime production helped break down traditional divisions of labor by encouraging women…
Descriptors: Asian History, Economic Development, Employed Women, Employment Patterns
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Chenoweth, Lillian; Maret-Havens, Elizabeth – Monthly Labor Review, 1978
Examines residential patterns and supply and demand factors to determine why women in highly urbanized areas are most likely to have career ties to the labor force, whereas rural women living outside a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area are most likely to have no labor force attachment. (TA)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Family Attitudes, Labor Demands
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Shank, Susan E.; Getz, Patricia M. – Monthly Labor Review, 1986
Describes labor market developments in 1985 for major age-sex, race-ethnic, industrial, and occupational groups. It also examines the performance of key employment and unemployment indicators in cyclical terms and evaluates selected developments from a secular perspective. Data discussed in this article come from two sources: household interviews…
Descriptors: Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
Franchak, Stephen J., Ed. – 1975
The document contains the proceedings of a conference on manpower research at the Federal, State, and local levels. Two papers from the opening general session focus on the interrelationship of economic, demographic, and educational changes based on its effects on occupational education. J. C. Pettinger's keynote speech presented issues regarding…
Descriptors: Conference Reports, Data Analysis, Educational Change, Educational Planning
Smuts, Robert W. – 1971
This book grew out of the research of the Conservation of Human Resources Project at Columbia University. It provides an updated version of a book with the same title and by the same author that was published in 1959. The subject is discussed in the following chapters: I. The Work of Women; II. The Women Who Work; III. The Demands and Rewards of…
Descriptors: Employed Parents, Employed Women, Employment Patterns, Feminism
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