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Women's Employment Transitions around Child Bearing

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The dynamics of women's labor supply are examined at a crucial stage of their lifecycle. This paper uses the longitudinal employment history records for the 3,898 thirty-three-year old mothers in the Fifth Sweep of the 1958 National Child Development Study cohort in the United Kingdom. Models of binary recurrent events are estimated, which correct for unobserved heterogeneity, using SABRE software. These focus on women's first transition to employment after the first childbirth and on the monthly transitions from first childbirth until censoring at the interview. Evidence of a polarization is found between highly educated, high-wage mothers and lower-educated, low-wage mothers. Copyright 1998 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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  • Dex, Shirley, et al, 1998. "Women's Employment Transitions around Child Bearing," Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Department of Economics, University of Oxford, vol. 60(1), pages 79-98, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:obuest:v:60:y:1998:i:1:p:79-98:a
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    1. Cordula Zabel, 2007. "Eligibility for materniy leave and first birth timing in Great Britain," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2007-009, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    2. Alba, Alfonso & Álvarez Llorente, Gema, 2001. "La actividad laboral de la mujer en el entorno del nacimiento de un hijo," DE - Documentos de Trabajo. Economía. DE de010401, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía.
    3. Alfonso Alba Ramírez & Gema Alvarez Llorente, 2004. "Actividad laboral de la mujer en torno al nacimiento de un hijo," Investigaciones Economicas, Fundación SEPI, vol. 28(3), pages 429-460, September.
    4. Alois Guger & Reiner Buchegger & Hedwig Lutz & Christine Mayrhuber & Michael Wüger, 2003. "Schätzung der direkten und indirekten Kinderkosten," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 24078, February.
    5. Deborah Smeaton, 2006. "Work return rates after childbirth in the UK - trends, determinants and implications: a comparison of cohorts born in 1958 and 1970," Work, Employment & Society, British Sociological Association, vol. 20(1), pages 5-25, March.
    6. Michael Anyadike-Danes & Duncan McVicar, 2010. "My Brilliant Career: Characterizing the Early Labor Market Trajectories of British Women From Generation X," Sociological Methods & Research, , vol. 38(3), pages 482-512, February.
    7. Magdalena M. Muszynska, 2004. "Employment after childbearing: a comparative study of Italy and Norway," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2004-030, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
    8. Jérôme De Henau & Danièle Meulders & Sile Padraigin O'Dorchai, 2006. "The comparative effectiveness of public policies to fight motherhood-induced employment penalties and decreasing fertility in the former EU-15," DULBEA Working Papers 0026, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles.
    9. Marcela Perticara, 2006. "Women’s Employment Transitions and Fertility," ILADES-UAH Working Papers inv172, Universidad Alberto Hurtado/School of Economics and Business.

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