Labor Force Participation of Married Women When Wages and Employment Are Risky: Theory and Estimation

Over the past 25 years, literature on the growth of married women's labor force participation, has concluded virtually without exception that the principal source of the growth has been the concurrent growth of women's real wages. In fact, while the rapid real wage rate growth of the 1950's and 60's virtually disappeared during the 1970's, participation rates grew steadily throughout the period. Thus, the principle source of participation rate growth for married women, as identified by the literature of the last three decades, essentially vanished during the 1970's, while participation rates continued their rapid increase.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Grossberg, Adam J.

• Economics, Labor

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8701498

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/70782