... advantage in mortality from lung cancer will decline over time in response to changes in women s work and family roles. To the extent that they reflect the roles of women, increasing labor-force participation among women and divorce, and decreasing marriage and fertility should (after an appropriate lag...

... been a signi cant generational shift in women s decisions to have children and allocate time between motherhood and participa- tion in the labor force. To some extent, this trend is already visible in aggregate statistics. The female labor force participation rate, which peaked in 2000, is now at 1996...

.... The Importance of Child Care Costs to Women s Decision Making. Pp. 87 117 in The Economics of Child Care, edited by D. Blau. New York: Russell Sage Foundation 1992. The Effect of Child Care Costs on Married Women s Labor Force Participation. Review of Economics and Statistics 74(1):83 90. Fuller, B., S.D...

... recent years, and because they do not address time with par- ents from the children s perspective. Educational Attainment and Family Size Though the principal goal of this paper is to analyze how children s time with parents is affected by changes in rates of single parenthood and women s labor force...

... over the past few decades (and that the gap between employed and nonemployed mothers regarding time with children is far smaller) than we might have expected, given the increase in women s labor force participation. Research on developing countries and historical work on developed countries have led me...

... takes nearly one year. In contrast, family migration does not affect the employment of husbands. It seems likely that several moves over time might cause a sig- ni cant decline in actual labor market experience. This suggests that the impact of migra- tion on married women s earnings may be due as much...

... 1977) and therefore have reduced the probability of coresidence. At the same time, younger women s rate of labor force participation has risen sharply. Employment outside the home may have made it more diffi- cult for daughters to care for their elderly parents, thus caus- ing a decline in coresidency...

... Context of Racial Differences. Journal of Ur- ban Affairs 18:245 68. Thurow, L. 1987. A Surge in Inequality. Scientific American 256:30 37. Treas, J. 1987. The Effect of Women s Labor Force Participation on the Distribution of Income in the United States. Annual Re- view of Sociology 13:259 88. U.S...

... women with children was even greater. How- ever, the growth of married women s labor force participation essentially ended in 1990. In contrast, the labor force participation of single mothers 16 years and older grew little prior to 1990 but has increased dramatically since 1990. Between 1980 and 1990...

... Force Reentry by Mothers of Young Children . Social Science Research , 1 , 189 – 210 . 10.1016/0049-089X(72)90093-2 U. S. Census of the United States: 1940. The Labor Force: Employment and Family Characteristics of Women . ( 1943 ). Washington, D. C. : U. S. Government Printing Office...

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.... A Beta-logistic Model for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Partic- ipation by Married Women. Journal of Political Economy 85:27-58. Mincer, J., and S. Polachek. 1974. Family Invest- ments in Human Capital: Earnings of Women. Journal of Political Economy 82:S76-SI08. Mott, Frank L., S. H. Sandell, D...

... data for a representative sample of 1,578 once-married Rhode Island women are utilized to examine the changing historical relationships between female work participation in selected life cycle intervals and educatonal attainment. The data indicate that there has been a recent convergence of labor force...

... and Social Inequality (pp. 388 – 425 ). Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . RDemography, Volume 42-Number 4, November 2005: 693 717 693 CHANGES IN WOMEN S POSTMARITAL EMPLOYMENT IN JAPAN AND TAIWAN* WEI-HSIN YU Research on female labor-force participation has not fully explained why economic...

... of Political Economy 82:S136-S163. -- and R. J. Willis. 1977. A Beta-Logistic Madel for the Analysis of Sequential Labor Force Participation by Married Women. Journal of Political Economy 85:27-58. Hofferth, S. L. 1979.Day Care in the Next Decade: 1980-1990. Journal of Marriage and the Family 41:649-658. Hout...

...Barbara S. Janowitz Abstract The impact of education on family size is divided into a direct effect (holding labor force participation and age at marriage constant) and an indirect effect (varying labor force participation and age at marriage). The results suggest that (I) the indirect effect...

... for Health Statistics, 1976,Tables 4A and 6A. Data for 1974-1977 are from Vital Statistics of the United States, Volume I, Natality, U. S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, National Center for Health Statistics. Female Labor Force Participation Rates Labor force participation rates of women...

... India Women’s labor force participation Sex differences in mortality Demographers have long recognized the role of culture in shaping demographic behaviors, such as marriage, childbearing, and intrahousehold relationships. In spite of its tremendous promise (Fricke 2003 ), though...

... Cycles. De- 1971. Marital and Family Characteris- mography 11:227-245. tics of Workers, March 1970. Special Labor Sweet, James A. 1973. Women in the Labor Force Report 130. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Force. New York: Seminar Press. Government Printing Office. Labor Force Participation Married Woman...

... and education among household heads also contributed significantly to the worsening income distribution. The change in family structure mainly affected the income disparity among lower-income families and increased poverty. The rise in women’s labor force participation improved the income distribution...