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Title: Why Do(n't) they leave?: Motherhood and women's job mobility

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: Although the relationship between motherhood and women's labor market exits has received a great deal of popular and empirical attention in recent years, far less is known about the relationship between motherhood and women's job changes. In this paper, I use panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) (NLSY79) and Cox regression models to examine how motherhood influences the types of job changes and employment exits women make and how this varies by racial-ethnic group. I find preschool-age children are largely immobilizing for white women, as they discourage these women from making the types of voluntary job changes that are often associated with wage growth. No such effects were found for Black or Hispanic women.

Url: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X15300119

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Authors: Looze, Jessica

Periodical (Full): Social Science Research

Issue: 1

Volume: 65

Pages: 47-59

Data Collections: IPUMS CPS

Topics: Family and Marriage, Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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