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Gender-Based Occupational Segregation and Sex Differences in Sensory, Motor, and Spatial Aptitudes
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1749–1775.
Published: 14 September 2018
...Michael Baker; Kirsten Cornelson Abstract Research on sex differences in humans documents gender differences in sensory, motor, and spatial aptitudes. These aptitudes, as captured by Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) codes, predict the occupational choices of men and women in the directions...
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Does Schooling Have Lasting Effects on Cognitive Function? Evidence From Compulsory Schooling Laws
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1139–1161.
Published: 01 August 2023
... on the type of occupation entered immediately after leaving school and at older ages. These patterns are consistent with basic education improving cognitive outcomes through occupation choice. The findings are robust to sensitivity analyses. Copyright © 2023 The Author 2023 This is an open access article...
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Agricultural Opportunity and Marriage: The United States at the Turn of the Century
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 203–218.
Published: 01 May 1989
... choice. Young men who entered nonagricultural pursuits or who were employed as farm laborers were far less likely to have married than young men who became farmers. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Blue Collar Farm Laborer Occupation White Collar Foreign...
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New frontiers in demography and social psychology
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Demography (1967) 4 (1): 90–97.
Published: 01 March 1967
... is able to look at demographic events as less than fate. Social conditions have also given more control to the individual over many events over which he had no control previously, such as choice of a marriage partner or an occupational career. Thus, the classical methods of demography are frequently...
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Demography (2021) 58 (3): 987–1010.
Published: 01 June 2021
.... , & Strobl E. ( 2009 ). The role of educational choice in occupational gender segregation: Evidence from Trinidad and Tobago . Economics of Education Review , 28 , 1 – 10 . Turner S. E. , & Bowen W. G. ( 1999 ). Choice of major: The changing (unchanging) gender gap . ILR Review...
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View articletitled, Gender Segregation in Education: Evidence From Higher Secondary Stream <span class="search-highlight">Choice</span> in India
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Self-employment and providing child care
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 17–29.
Published: 01 February 1992
... Association of America 17 18 Demography, Vol. 29, No.1, February 1992 employment. In this paper we examine the choices women make between self-employment and nonself-employment, and between the child care profession and other occupations, and we try to assess the effect of the presence of young children...
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Economic Assimilation and Skill Acquisition: Evidence From the Occupational Sorting of Childhood Immigrants
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Demography (2017) 54 (2): 571–602.
Published: 17 March 2017
...Marigee Bacolod; Marcos A. Rangel Abstract We study the economic assimilation of childhood immigrants to the United States. The linguistic distance between English and the predominant language in one’s country of birth interacted with age at arrival is shown to be closely connected to occupational...
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Analyzing migration decisions: the first step—whose decisions?
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Demography (1983) 20 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 August 1983
...Ralph R. Sell Abstract Many theories of geographic mobility assume that the change-of-residence process includes a substantial degree of choice. This paper classifies stated reasons for moving from the 1973 through 1977 Annual Housing Survey into forced, imposed, and preference-dominated categories...
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Spousal Mobility and Earnings
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Demography (2008) 45 (4): 829–849.
Published: 01 November 2008
..., is still subject to criticism to the extent that choice of occupation is endogenous to household earnings. On the other hand, this approach avoids many of the empirical challenges in the existing literature on migration outcomes. Duncan and Perrucci (1976) and Shauman and Noonan (2007) also incorporated...
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Immigration and the Wage Distribution in the United States
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2229–2252.
Published: 22 November 2019
... . Peri G. , & Sparber C. ( 2011 ). Highly educated immigrants and native occupational choice . Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society , 50 , 385 – 411 . Piketty T. , & Saez E. ( 2006 ). The evolution of top incomes: A historical and international...
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Measuring Geographic Migration Patterns Using Matrículas Consulares
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 14 May 2018
... in the location and occupational choice of immigrants (ClioLab Working Paper No. 14). Macul, Santiago : Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . Li G. ( 1985 ). Robust regression . In D. C. Hoaglin , F. Mosteller , & J. W. Tukey (Eds.), Exploring data...
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Female work experience, employment status, and birth expectations: Sequential decision-making in the Philippines
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Demography (1976) 13 (3): 339–356.
Published: 01 August 1976
.... , & Rosenzweig , M. R. ( 1976 ). Female Labor-Force Participation, Occupational Choice and Fertility in Developing Countries . Journal of Development Economics , 2 , 1 – 19 . Mincer , Jacob ( 1974 ). Schooling, Experience and Earnings . New York : Columbia University Press . Mincer...
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Like Father, Like Son? Intergenerational Educational Mobility in India
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1929–1959.
Published: 20 October 2015
... in occupational choices, educational attainment, and wages. They estimated intergenerational elasticity based on synthetic parent–child pairs, wherein all household heads are combined into a group called “parents” and children/grandchildren are combined into a group called “children.” Specifically, they focused...
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Mother–Child Relations and Adolescent Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
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Demography (1989) 26 (4): 563–577.
Published: 01 November 1989
... of high school program, classes, and occupation. An additive scale based on the frequency that the child mentioned his or her mother as being involved in the choice determined the value of this index. 5. Mother's report of the overall quality of the relation (overall mother). An additive scale based...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1249–1274.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to reduced hours. New parents are making decisions in a labor market and policy context that provides highly constrained choices. Yet studies of specific occupations over time and in cross-national perspective demonstrate that work hour inflexibility is not inevitable or inherent to any particular type...
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View articletitled, <span class="search-highlight">Occupational</span> Inflexibility and Women's Employment During the Transition to Parenthood
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Birds of a Feather: Social Bases of Neighborhood Formation in Newark, New Jersey, 1880
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1085–1108.
Published: 06 July 2016
... than a century ago, this question remains important today, and our approach to dealing with it is relevant to any period. We apply discrete choice models to analyze how individual characteristics (such as ethnicity and occupation) are related to place characteristics (such as the percentage coethnic...
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City–suburban destination choices among migrants to metropolitan areas
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 321–335.
Published: 01 May 1972
... migrants forming a greater share of family heads with these occupational skills. These differences indicate that the greatest share of higher-status migrants entering metropolitan areas originate from other metropolitan areas and not City-Suburban Destination Choices from nonmetropolitan areas. This should...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... variable innate desire to be active in the labor force is also correlated with employment/retirement duration and cognition, then the IV used in the analysis is not valid. Other unobservable characteristics that are potentially correlated with occupational choice at labor market entry and retirement...
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View articletitled, Effect of Retirement on Cognition: Evidence From the Irish Marriage Bar
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Is there competition between breast-feeding and maternal employment?
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 May 1999
... sum to 100.0 because ofrounding. minants of work leave, though theoretically they could in- dummy variable measuring the availability of any formal fluence the taste for home production versus market work. work leave. Occupational choice may be the result of Breast-feeding problems, reported by 55...
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The use of public transportation in urban areas: Toward a causal model
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Demography (1977) 14 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 February 1977
... they do nothing to alter present cost differentials between the two modes. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1977 1977 Occupational Status Public Transportation Modal Choice American Sociological Review Central Business District References Bock , Frederick C...
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