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Published: 28 October 2015
Fig. 8 Percentage of women aged 25–29 engaged in wage labor, by marital status: United States, 1860–2013. Source: Ruggles ( forthcoming )
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Published: 28 October 2015
Fig. 16 The rise and fall of wage labor: Percentage of persons aged 18–64 engaged in wage and salary work, by sex: 1800–2050. Source: Ruggles et al. ( 2015 )
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Demography (2009) 46 (2): 341–369.
Published: 01 May 2009
..., and West German women around the 1960s. We establish wage penalties for motherhood between 9% and 18% per child, with wage losses among American and British mothers being lower than those experienced by mothers in Germany. Labor market mechanisms generating the observed wage penalty for motherhood differ...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 415–430.
Published: 01 November 2000
... on the extent and sources of “within-group” wage inequality in more than 500 labor markets in the United States in 1990. In addition to documenting that within-group wage inequality across regions varies more widely today than over the past several decades, the analysis reveals that two frequently cited...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 181–198.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Paul S. Maxim Abstract Historically, self-employment was perceived as a mechanism whereby immigrants could circumvent discriminatory practices in wage labor. More recent research by Borjas in the United States, however, suggests that this view is incorrect. Immigrants, particularly members...
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Demography (2015) 52 (6): 1797–1823.
Published: 28 October 2015
...Fig. 8 Percentage of women aged 25–29 engaged in wage labor, by marital status: United States, 1860–2013. Source: Ruggles ( forthcoming ) ...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 233–246.
Published: 01 May 1999
..., with employers passing the costs and risks of unauthorized hiring on to the workers. Although available data do not permit us to eliminate competing explanations entirely, limited controls suggest that the post-IRCA wage penalty against undocumented migrants did not stem from an expansion of the immigrant labor...
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 33–60.
Published: 29 January 2020
... of economic and gender wage inequality. 15 11 2019 29 01 2020 © Population Association of America 2020 2020 Gender Employment Wages Life course Labor force The gender wage gap in the United States between employed men and women sharply declined throughout the 1970s and 1980s...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1275–1300.
Published: 01 August 2021
...-wage labor market experience similar disadvantages and whether the mechanisms underlying discrimination vary across contexts. These gaps are important because more- and less-educated mothers increasingly possess distinct resources and face unique demands both at home and at work, which may impact...
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Demography (2008) 45 (3): 619–639.
Published: 01 August 2008
... further depth of understanding to the“mixed” picture of earnings determination in the low-skill labor market that has been reported by others. On the positive side, many immigrants are employed in similar occupations and industries as natives. Both groups show substantial wage gains over time...
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Demography (1986) 23 (1): 13–30.
Published: 01 February 1986
... Statistical Association , 76 , 782 – 792 . 10.2307/2287568 Mohie-Eldin A. ( 1982 ). The Development of the Share of Agricultural Wage Labor in National Income of Egypt . In G. Abdel-Khalik , & R. Tigun (Eds.), The Political Economy of Income Distribution in Egypt . New York...
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Demography (2010) 47 (4): 963–987.
Published: 01 November 2010
...-level entrepreneurial activity, off-farm employment, and out-migration. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Household Member Household Composition Household Labor Business Formation Wage Employment References Adams R.H. ( 1998 ). Remittances...
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Demography (1984) 21 (2): 171–183.
Published: 01 May 1984
... rates are found to decrease with job wages and job tenure and to increase when a woman has children. 9 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1984 1984 Labor Force Transition Rate Labor Force Participation Female Labor Force Participation National Longitudinal Survey...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 41–51.
Published: 01 February 2000
... empirical evidence about labor market discrimination by investigating wages among African American, American Indian, Chinese American, Hispanic white, Japanese American, and non-Hispanic white men. We find, during the period before the civil rights movement, that a substantively significant wage...
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Writing the names: Marriage style, living arrangements, and first birth interval in a Nepali society
Demography (1993) 30 (2): 175–188.
Published: 01 May 1993
... with previous arguments in the literature while offering new evidence for the impact of extended-family residence on fertility. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1993 1993 Birth Interval Wage Labor Proximate Determinant Event History Analysis Marriage Cohort References...
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Demography (2009) 46 (3): 469–492.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 1979 to 2005. We investigate how demographic and labor market conditions influence employment and wage inequality among black and white women over the period. Although shifts in labor supply influence the magnitude of the black-white wage gap among women, structural disadvantages faced by black women...
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Demography (2008) 45 (2): 363–386.
Published: 01 May 2008
... . 10.2307/2578554 Friedmann H. ( 1978 ). World Market, State, and Family Farm: Social Bases of Household Production in the Era of Wage Labor . Comparative Studies in Society and History , 20 , 545 – 86 . 10.1017/S001041750001255X Fuguitt G.V. ( 1985 ). The Nonmetropolitan...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 813–833.
Published: 13 May 2019
... is a household public good and that family members share childcare and related domestic duties. The incentive to share children’s companionship is affected by son preference, whereas the economic motive of labor division hinges on the potential wage rate of the mother. Both channels play important roles...
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Demography (1972) 9 (2): 257–261.
Published: 01 May 1972
... and in-migration rates lower. Labor seems quite sensitive to differential labor market conditions and would appear to flow toward markets where an economic advantage lies. One interesting interpretation of the negative association between in-migration and wages is that employment opportunities may expand more...
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Demography (2021) 58 (4): 1301–1325.
Published: 01 August 2021
... distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Motherhood Gender Labor markets Planned and unplanned births For many women, having children poses challenges that appear to adversely affect their employment and wage trajectories. This highlights the importance...
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