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Title: Labor Markets and Opportunity Structures - Modeling the Context of Retirement in the Historical United States

Citation Type: Conference Paper

Publication Year: 1999

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Abstract: This article uses linked county-level and individual-level economic, demographic, and social indicators drawn from three historical U.S, censuses to examine a construct that has been labeled labor market or opportunity structure in historical and demographic multilevel research. Findings are that turn-of-the-twentieth-century localities were diverse opportunity structures that systematically and differentially shaped older men's unemployment rates and their likelihood of work and retirement. This article also highlights issues that researchers might face as they work with linked census data-specifically multidimensionality of contextual influences with resultant collinearity and variable selection problems.

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Authors: Elman, Cheryl

Conference Name: Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America

Publisher Location: Miami Beach, FL

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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