Search Results for Work Interruption

... examines whether the residual motherhood wage penalty results from differences between mothers and other women in the accumulation of work interruptions and breaks in schooling. Using longitudinal data for 486 women followed from ages 19 to 31 in the Minnesota Youth Development Study, we find...

... markedly across countries, however. For British and American women, work interruptions and subsequent mobility into mother-friendly jobs fully account for mothers’ wage losses. In contrast, respective penalties are considerably smaller in Germany, yet we observe a substantial residual wage penalty...

... at above average rates, and that of older women has risen at below average rates. Changes in the age structure of the working age population have also contributed to a combination of rising unemployment and accelerating inflation. Cohort divorce rates, suicide among young males, crime rates, and political...

... family-related lapses as indications of lower commitment levels, thus offering lower wages to employees with such circumstances (Evertsson 2016 ; Theunissen et al. 2011 ; Weisshaar 2018 ). The family formation perspective would predict particularly low wages for pathways with work interruptions...

... mothers—greatly increased their labor supply, experiencing fewer and shorter work interruptions, as fertility declined and social attitudes shifted in favor of their participation in paid work (Joesch 1994 ; Rindfuss et al. 1996 ). Many studies have investigated short-term effects of work or family...

...-time employment is more frequent among married Japanese women who cannot nd full-time jobs after work interruptions than among those with high family demands (Gottfried and Hayashi-Kato 1998; Houseman and Osawa 1995; Yu 2002). In contrast, Taiwanese rms rarely offer reduced work hours and part-time...

... or interrupted work and single motherhood. This finding aligns with and extends Flippen and Parrado's (2015) finding that immigrant Mexican women's work trajectories are responsive to their educational attainment in Mexico, but not once the women are in the United States. However, this does not mean...

... outcomes of the teenage mothers. Young women who have a child prior to their expected graduation date are slightly less likely to be working or married and have a higher number of children, on average. We find no statistically significant difference in earnings for the women whose education was interrupted...

... in relation to Hurricane Hugo (Cohan and Cole 2002). Following the hurricane in 1989, births (as well as marriages and divorces) increased in the 22 affected counties in South Carolina, compared with those that were not affected. Other recent work also suggested a reduction in divorces immedi- ately following...

... in Table A6 (online appendix) demonstrate the same strong and statistically significant negative association between occupational work hour inflexibility and mothers'—but not fathers'—employment. Despite the importance of parenthood-related work interruptions in accounting for the gender wage gap...

... , R. , & Borquez , J. ( 1994 ). Unemployment and Work Interruption Among African American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning . Child Development , 65 , 562 – 89 . 10.2307/1131402 Mott , F.L. ( 1990 ). When is a Father Really...

... abortion, taken from the work of Shapiro et al. (1970) pertaining to the experience of the Health Insurance Program of Greater New York. The medium standard of miscarriage risk is derived from their total sample; the low standard, from the "gravidity 1" subsample; and the high standard of miscarriage risk...

.... , Jayaratne , T.E. , Ceballo , R. , & Borquez , J. ( 1994 ). Unemployment and Work Interruption Among African American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning . Child Development , 65 , 562 – 89 . 10.2307/1131402 McLoyd , V.C...

... of induced abortion rises, the probabilities of live birth, stillbirth, and miscarriage all should go down. Since the competition between miscarriage and abortion works in both directions, an augmented frequency of induced abor- tion should mean a higher proportion of potential miscarriages obviated, thereby...

.../1131096 McCloyd V.C. , Jayartne T.E. , Ceballo R. , & Borquez J. ( 1994 ). Unemployment and Work Interruption Among African-American Single Mothers: Effects on Parenting and Adolescent Socioemotional Functioning . Child Development , 65 , 562 – 89 . 10.2307/1131402...

... – 346 . 10.2307/1131096 McLoyd , V. C. , Jayarante , T. , Ceballo , R. , & Borquez , J. ( 1994 ). Unemployment and work interrupting among African American single mothers: Effects on parenting and adolescent socioemotional functioning . Child Development , 65 , 562 – 589...

...: A longitudinal comparison of two-parent and female-headed families . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 45 , 347 – 357 . 10.2307/351513 McLoyd V. C. , Epstein Jayaratne T. , Ceballo R. , & Borquez J. ( 1994 ). Unemployment and work interruption among African American single...

... with lower work intensity after motherhood. Two additional groups are similar in that women start families early but return to full-time work after short childbirth-related interruptions. The difference across groups lies in the levels of fertility. In one relatively small group (3.4% of mothers), women had...

...- soned answers demanded hard work with each interviewer; this was possible only if they were few. METHOD OF ANALYSIS The probability for each woman of un- dergoing induced abortion is the product of the probability of her becoming preg- nant and that of her deciding to interrupt her pregnancy...

... were negatively affected by the Great Recession ( Comolli 2017 ; Currie and Schwandt 2014 ). In Hungary, on the other hand, traditional gender attitudes and practices remain largely prevalent, and childbirth typically leads to long work interruptions for mothers ( Korintus and Stropnik 2009...