Complementarity of work and fertility among young American mothers

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5111468
AutoresFrank Luther Mott (The Ohio State University), David Shapiro (0000-0002-0838-3910, Pennsylvania State University)
Año1983
Volumen37
Número2
Páginas239-252
Fecha de publicación1983-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1983.10408749
PMID22085143
OpenAlexW1980092876
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas13

In this paper information about cohorts of young women in the National Longitudinal Survey of Work Experience is used to examine the extent to which women maintain a continuity of work attachment during their early years of childbearing, the years when traditionally they were most likely to withdraw from the work force. The results indicate that women who maintain closer ties to the work force immediately before and after their first birth are also more likely to be employed in 1978 - between five and ten years after their first birth - independently of intervening fertility events and other labour supply factors considered to be important predictors of work. The notion that work and fertility are increasingly becoming complementary activities for American women is supported by these data

Biology · Complementarity (molecular biology) · Demographic economics · Economics · Fertility · Population · Sociology · Work (physics) · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality