Prevalence of Long Work Hours by Spouse’s Degree Field and the Labor Market Outcomes of Skilled Women

Terra McKinnish

ILR Review, 2021, vol. 74, issue 4, 898-919

Abstract: Using 2009 to 2015 American Community Survey (ACS) data, this article estimates the effect of the prevalence of long hours and short hours of work in a husband’s field of work, as defined by his undergraduate degree field, on the labor market outcomes of skilled married women. When individuals work in fields that require longer hours of work, their spouses experience spillover effects. The labor market outcomes of female spouses are more negatively affected than are those of male spouses. Specifically, female spouses face lower total earnings, hourly wages, employment options, and hours of work for married women with children relative to married men with children or married women without children. Little evidence supports the idea that the rate of short hours of work in a spouse’s degree field differentially affects married women with children.

Keywords: labor market outcomes; household economics; marriage and labor supply; work and family; long hours (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0019793920901703

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