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Converging employment patterns of black, white, and Hispanic women : return to work after first birth

Title
Converging employment patterns of black, white, and Hispanic women : return to work after first birth / Young-Hee Yoon and Linda J. Waite.
Author
Yoon, Young-Hee.
Publication
Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Waite, Linda J.
Description
pages 209-217; 28 cm
Summary
This study examines the determinants of womens' return to work following the birth of their first child among white, black and Mexican-origin women to test the general hypothesis that previous racial differentials--observed during the later 1960s and early 1970s--in employment of new mothers have disappeared with changes in overall employment patterns of women. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth show the expected pattern. Several important measures of a woman's human capital, such as value of time, job experience, and work role attitudes have similar effects in predicting postnatal force participation for the three groups. However, other human capital and demographic factors, especially education, family income other than the woman's earning, and residence in an urban area affect return to work differently for black and white mothers. The results are tied to changes in job characteristics, the economy, and the family.
Series Statement
Rand reprints ; RAND/RP-299. Labor & Population Program reprint series ; 94-05
Uniform Title
  • Rand reprints ; RAND/RP-299.
  • Rand reprints. Labor & Population Program reprint series ; 94-05.
Subject
  • Mothers > Employment > Economic aspects > United States
  • Mothers > Employment > Social aspects > United States
  • African American women > Employment
  • Women, White > Employment > United States
  • Mexican American women > Employment
  • Mères > Travail > Aspect économique > États-Unis
  • Mères > Travail > Aspect social > États-Unis
  • Noires américaines > Travail
  • Blanches > Travail > États-Unis
  • Américaines d'origine mexicaine > Travail
  • Mothers > Employment > Economic aspects
  • Mothers > Employment > Social aspects
  • United States
Note
  • Reprint. Originally published in: Journal of marriage and the family. Menasha, Wis. : National Council on Family Relations, ©1964- Vol. 56, no. 1 (Feb. 1994), p. 209-217.
  • "Labor & Population Program."
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 217).
OCLC
  • ocm48983642
  • SCSB-14351086
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library