Susan Mcrae
Biographic Data
| ID | 260456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Mcrae |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcrae |
| SIGNATURE | MCRAE S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 315 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Choice and constraints in mothers' employment careers: McRae replies to Hakim
Constraints and choices in mothers' employment careers: A consideration of Hakim's Preference Theory
This paper provides an empirical examination of women's work histories following a first birth, their sex‐role attitudes, and the relationship between attitudes and work history. In the light of these analyses, the aptness of Preference Theory (Hakim 2000) as an explanation for the position of women in the British labour market is considered. Addressed in particular is Hakim's argument (2000: 7) that the main determinant of women's heterogeneous …
Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s
Major changes have happened in households and people’s lives in most countries in the developed world. Marriage rates have fallen, divorce has risen, women are having fewer children and later in life, and there has been a rise in childbearing outside marriage. One in four families is headed by a lone parent. We are all getting older. These changes have significance that goes beyond the individual families - with implications for housing demand, s…
Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes
Household and Labour Market Change: Implications for the Growth of Inequality in Britain
Labour Supply after Childbirth: Do Employers' Policies Make a Difference
Data from a national survey of new mothers are linked to data from a survey of their pre-birth employers in order to investigate the importance of employer characteristics and policies, relative to women's individual characteristics and circumstances, in determining labour supply outcomes after childbirth. Three labour supply outcomes are examined: returning to work after childbirth, hours of work after returning to work, and choice of employer a…
Returning to work after childbirth: Opportunities and Inequalities
Data from a national survey of new mothers are used to examine class and labour market differences in women's labour market opportunities after childbirth. Women's labour market intentions during pregnancy are brought into the analysis in order to examine class and labour market effects on securing a desired outcome. Substantially unequal rates of returning to work are shown to exist and to have persisted over the last decade among women with occ…
Young Adults and Long Term Unemployment
Occupational Change Over Childbirth: Evidence from a National Survey
Data from a national survey of women who had recently given birth are used to examine women's employment experiences around the time of childbirth. The data provide further evidence of the trend towards an early return to work following childbirth. There has also been a narrowing in rates of return to work after childbirth between women previously employed part-time and full-time, and a reduction in occupational downward mobility for some women. …
A more polarised labour market
Cross-Class Families: A Study of Wives' Occupational Superiority
What happens to a marriage when the wife is a professional and the husband is a manual worker? Cross-Class Families takes a keen look at families that break with the convention of male occupational superiority. Key issues addressed by the families studied include paid work and its relation to family life; the division of household labor, including childcare; responsibility for long-term financial security; and the impact of differences in status,…
The Allocation of Money in Cross-Class Families
This paper examines the patterns of income allocation in cross-class families; that is, in families in which the wife is employed in higher level white-collar or professional employment, and the husband in manual work. Following the work of Jan Pahl (1982 and 1983) families are categorised according to their system of money management. The majority of families here employ either a 'one purse' system based upon joint family funds, or an independen…
Constraints and choices in mothers' employment careers: A consideration of Hakim's Preference Theory
This paper provides an empirical examination of women's work histories following a first birth, their sex‐role attitudes, and the relationship between attitudes and work history. In the light of these analyses, the aptness of Preference Theory (Hakim 2000) as an explanation for the position of women in the British labour market is considered. Addressed in particular is Hakim's argument (2000: 7) that the main determinant of women's heterogeneous …
Choice and constraints in mothers' employment careers: McRae replies to Hakim
Returning to work after childbirth: Opportunities and Inequalities
Data from a national survey of new mothers are used to examine class and labour market differences in women's labour market opportunities after childbirth. Women's labour market intentions during pregnancy are brought into the analysis in order to examine class and labour market effects on securing a desired outcome. Substantially unequal rates of returning to work are shown to exist and to have persisted over the last decade among women with occ…
Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes
Occupational Change Over Childbirth: Evidence from a National Survey
Data from a national survey of women who had recently given birth are used to examine women's employment experiences around the time of childbirth. The data provide further evidence of the trend towards an early return to work following childbirth. There has also been a narrowing in rates of return to work after childbirth between women previously employed part-time and full-time, and a reduction in occupational downward mobility for some women. …
The Allocation of Money in Cross-Class Families
This paper examines the patterns of income allocation in cross-class families; that is, in families in which the wife is employed in higher level white-collar or professional employment, and the husband in manual work. Following the work of Jan Pahl (1982 and 1983) families are categorised according to their system of money management. The majority of families here employ either a 'one purse' system based upon joint family funds, or an independen…
Household and Labour Market Change: Implications for the Growth of Inequality in Britain
Labour Supply after Childbirth: Do Employers' Policies Make a Difference
Data from a national survey of new mothers are linked to data from a survey of their pre-birth employers in order to investigate the importance of employer characteristics and policies, relative to women's individual characteristics and circumstances, in determining labour supply outcomes after childbirth. Three labour supply outcomes are examined: returning to work after childbirth, hours of work after returning to work, and choice of employer a…
Young Adults and Long Term Unemployment
A more polarised labour market
Cross-Class Families: A Study of Wives' Occupational Superiority
What happens to a marriage when the wife is a professional and the husband is a manual worker? Cross-Class Families takes a keen look at families that break with the convention of male occupational superiority. Key issues addressed by the families studied include paid work and its relation to family life; the division of household labor, including childcare; responsibility for long-term financial security; and the impact of differences in status,…
The Allocation of Money in Cross-Class Families
This paper examines the patterns of income allocation in cross-class families; that is, in families in which the wife is employed in higher level white-collar or professional employment, and the husband in manual work. Following the work of Jan Pahl (1982 and 1983) families are categorised according to their system of money management. The majority of families here employ either a 'one purse' system based upon joint family funds, or an independen…
A more polarised labour market
Young Adults and Long Term Unemployment
Occupational Change Over Childbirth: Evidence from a National Survey
Data from a national survey of women who had recently given birth are used to examine women's employment experiences around the time of childbirth. The data provide further evidence of the trend towards an early return to work following childbirth. There has also been a narrowing in rates of return to work after childbirth between women previously employed part-time and full-time, and a reduction in occupational downward mobility for some women. …
Returning to work after childbirth: Opportunities and Inequalities
Data from a national survey of new mothers are used to examine class and labour market differences in women's labour market opportunities after childbirth. Women's labour market intentions during pregnancy are brought into the analysis in order to examine class and labour market effects on securing a desired outcome. Substantially unequal rates of returning to work are shown to exist and to have persisted over the last decade among women with occ…
Labour Supply after Childbirth: Do Employers' Policies Make a Difference
Data from a national survey of new mothers are linked to data from a survey of their pre-birth employers in order to investigate the importance of employer characteristics and policies, relative to women's individual characteristics and circumstances, in determining labour supply outcomes after childbirth. Three labour supply outcomes are examined: returning to work after childbirth, hours of work after returning to work, and choice of employer a…
Household and Labour Market Change: Implications for the Growth of Inequality in Britain
Lone Mothers in European Welfare Regimes
Changing Britain: Families and Households in the 1990s
Major changes have happened in households and people’s lives in most countries in the developed world. Marriage rates have fallen, divorce has risen, women are having fewer children and later in life, and there has been a rise in childbearing outside marriage. One in four families is headed by a lone parent. We are all getting older. These changes have significance that goes beyond the individual families - with implications for housing demand, s…
Choice and constraints in mothers' employment careers: McRae replies to Hakim
Constraints and choices in mothers' employment careers: A consideration of Hakim's Preference Theory
This paper provides an empirical examination of women's work histories following a first birth, their sex‐role attitudes, and the relationship between attitudes and work history. In the light of these analyses, the aptness of Preference Theory (Hakim 2000) as an explanation for the position of women in the British labour market is considered. Addressed in particular is Hakim's argument (2000: 7) that the main determinant of women's heterogeneous …
Economics (11 works) · Demographic economics (9 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (4 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (4 works)