Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

Shirley Dex, Heather Joshi and Susan Macran

No 1408, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: The dynamics of women’s labour supply are examined at a crucial stage of the life-cycle. This paper uses the longitudinal employment history records for 3,893 33-year-old mothers in the 5th sweep of the 1958 National Child Development Study cohort. Models of binary recurrent events are estimated which correct for unobserved heterogeneity, using SABRE software. These models focus (a) on women’s first transition from first childbirth until the interview and (b) on all the monthly transitions. Evidence of a polarization was found between highly-educated, high-wage mothers and lower-educated, low-wage mothers.

Keywords: Labour Force Dynamics; Mothers' Employment Histories (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C49 J13 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-06
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