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Labor Force Participation by Married Women: Recent Intercity Evidence

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  • Augustin Kwasi Fosu

    (Oakland University)

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Previous intercity evidence has revealed a declining trend in the sensitivity of wives' labor-force participation to economic variables, with results for 1970 suggesting that participation is now governed by social norms. The present paper finds substantial impacts of economic variables on the participation rate for 1980. These results show further that while the influence of the husband's income continued to decrease between 1960 and 1980, the market wage effect was unchanged. However, impacts of both variables increased appreciably between 1970 and 1980, suggesting that the finding of unusually low sensitivities of participation to economic variables for 1970 were specific to that era of heightened feminism.

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  • Augustin Kwasi Fosu, 1990. "Labor Force Participation by Married Women: Recent Intercity Evidence," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 16(3), pages 229-238, Jul-Sep.
    • Handle: RePEc:eej:eeconj:v:16:y:1990:i:3:p:229-238
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    2. Janet Netz & Jon Haveman, 1999. "All In The Family: Family, Income, And Labor Force Attachment," Feminist Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 5(3), pages 85-106.

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