Racial Differences in Wives' Labor Force Participation

This research examined the effects of labor market structure and early life-course events of the family on racial differences in wives' labor force participation. Previous research had been unable to identify determinants of black wives' labor force participation. Variables that have a large significant effect on the labor force status of white wives--their educational attainment, their husband's earnings and the age composition of their children--have no appreciable effect for blacks. Further, previous studies investigating wives' labor force participation report conflicting results in explaining why the labor force participation rate of black wives is considerably higher than that of white wives. Some studies report race differences in personal and family characteristics explain black wives' higher rates. Other studies attribute the racial differential to a difference in effects those characteristics have on labor force participation.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Rexroat, Cynthia Ann

• Sociology, Individual and Family Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8108635

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67904