Female Labor Force Intermittency and Current Earnings: A Switching Regression Model with Unknown Sample Selection

TitleFemale Labor Force Intermittency and Current Earnings: A Switching Regression Model with Unknown Sample Selection
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsHotchkiss, JL, M. Pitts, M
JournalApplied Economics
Volume37
Issue5
Pagination545-560
Call Numberpubs_2005_SSRNid487382.pdf
KeywordsEmployment and Labor Force, Income, Women and Minorities
Abstract

Using the Health and Retirement Survey, this paper finds a 16 percent selectivity-corrected wage penalty among women who engage in intermittent labor market activity. This penalty is experienced at a low level of intermittent activity but appears not to play an important role in a woman's decision to undertake such activity. In addition, employer preferences appear to play a larger role than human capital atrophy in the determination of the wage penalty.

DOI10.1080/0003684042000307003
Endnote Keywords

Labor Force/Income/Women, Working

Endnote ID

13442

Citation Key7004