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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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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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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
... colleges. Therefore, stream choice at the higher secondary level is an important decision in an individual's career because it drives the field choice at subsequent levels of education, which in turn affects labor market outcomes through occupational choice. National-level statistics from repeated cross...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 17–29.
Published: 01 February 1992
... 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 on these choices. The results show that the selection of these employment strategies is influenced by the presence of young children, especially the choice...
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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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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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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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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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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 1119–1145.
Published: 14 May 2018
... of hot deck imputation in the current population survey . Demography , 49 , 1061 – 1074 . 10.1007/s13524-012-0110-3 Lafortune J. , & Tessada J. ( 2014 ). Smooth(er) landing? The dynamic role of networks in the location and occupational choice of immigrants (ClioLab Working...
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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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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1929–1959.
Published: 20 October 2015
... Sample Survey (NSS) that covers the period 1983–2005 to analyze intergenerational persistence 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...
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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
.... , Kelly E. L. , O'Connor L. T. , & Williams J. C. ( 2014 ). Redesigning, redefining work . Work and Occupations , 41 , 3 – 17 . Cortés P. , & Pan J. ( 2017 ). Cross-country evidence on the relationship between overwork and skilled women's job choices...
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Demography (2018) 55 (4): 1317–1341.
Published: 07 June 2018
... in the private sector. If this unmeasured 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...
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Demography (2016) 53 (4): 1085–1108.
Published: 06 July 2016
..., 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 neighbors and average...
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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 (1999) 36 (2): 157–171.
Published: 01 May 1999
.... Occupational choice may be the result of Breast-feeding problems, reported by 55% of the sample, re- premarket decisions about family and home production and fer primarily to physical or medical conditions. Therefore thus may determine breast-feeding behavior as well as labor this variable, in particular...
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Demography (2015) 52 (5): 1729–1750.
Published: 10 September 2015
... for nonworking females. The extent to which women became more similar to men in terms of years of actual experience or occupational choice will be reflected in the reduction of the market price gap that men and women receive on their observable characteristics. Blau and Kahn ( 2007 ) also argued that as women...
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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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