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The Persistence of Female Labor Supply: Empirical Evidence and Implications.
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This article used PSID data from 1967 to 1987 to examine changes in persistence over time, finding that there is little change in persistence because as women entered the labor force in greater numbers they tended to become continuous workers, replacing continuous nonworkers.Abstract:
Previous research has shown that female hours of work are very persistent over women's lifetimes-that women tend to be either workers or nonworkers. This paper uses PSID data from 1967 to 1987 to examine changes in persistence over time. The overall finding is that there is little change in persistence because as women entered the labor force in greater numbers they tended to become continuous workers, replacing continuous nonworkers. Among older women, spells of reduced hours are now less prolonged (holding constant a fixed effect). Among young women, the persistence of hours has increased slightly over time, and patterns of employment now appear to develop prior to marriage and continue into the married years.read more
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Family Policy and After-Birth Employment Among New Mothers – A Comparison of Finland, Norway and Sweden
Marit Rønsen,Marianne Sundström +1 more
TL;DR: Comparing the employmentpatterns of women after first and second birth in Finland, Norway and Sweden during 1972–1992 suggests that very long leave entitlements and child-minding benefit programs could havenegative consequences for women's career and earnings potentials and may preserve an unequaldivision of labour in the family.
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Gender Differences in Time Use over the Life Course in France, Italy, Sweden, and the US
Dominique Anxo,Letizia Mencarini,Ariane Pailhé,Anne Solaz,Maria Letizia Tanturri,Lennart Flood +5 more
TL;DR: This paper analyzed how men and women in France, Italy, Sweden, and the United States use their time over the life cycle and the extent to which societal and institutional contexts influence the gender division of labor.
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The Work-Employment Distinction Among New Mothers
TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of employment, actual work, and maternity leave for women in the year following childbirth and found that women with better market skills were more likely than other new mothers to have a job and to work.
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Women's Employment Patterns during Early Parenthood: A Group-Based Trajectory Analysis.
Kathryn Hynes,Marin Clarkberg +1 more
TL;DR: The authors used a group-based trajectory method to examine women's employment trajectories across the period of early parenthood using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (N = 2,093).
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The New Economics of Teachers and Education
Frederick Flyer,Sherwin Rosen +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the role of women's time in elementary and secondary education and found that the dramatic increase in direct costs of education per student in the past three decades is empirically linked to increasing demand and utilization of teacher and staff inputs, attributable to growing market opportunities for women and changes in the structure of families.
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TL;DR: The most important developments in econometrics in the past ten years have occurred in the area of qualitative response (QR) models as discussed by the authors, and there are two factors which explain the recent upsurge of QR models in economic applications: 1) Economists deal with many variables, thus necessitating the need to formulate more complex models involving more than one discrete variable and more than two responses, as well as using more independent variables.
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Qualitative Response Models: A Survey
TL;DR: The most important developments in econometrics in the past ten years have occurred in the area of qualitative response (QR) models as discussed by the authors, and there are two factors which explain the recent upsurge of QR models in economic applications: 1) Economists deal with many variables, thus necessitating the need to formulate more complex models involving more than one discrete variable and more than two responses, as well as using more independent variables.
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