Arbeitspapier
The opt-out revolution: A descriptive analysis
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution - highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses solely on the decision to work a positive number of hours irrespective of marital status or race. If one, however, focuses on both the decision to work a positive number of hours as well as the decision to adjust annual hours of work (conditional on working), I find some evidence of the opt-out revolution, particularly among white college educated married women in male dominated occupations.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 5089
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
- Thema
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opting out
female labor supply
extensive/intensive margin
race/ethnicity
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Antecol, Heather
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
- (wo)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-201008116007
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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12.03.2025, 17:08 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Antecol, Heather
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2010