Family-oriented versus career seekers: mixture regression separation

Lara Delsalle () and Oleksii Birulin ()
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Lara Delsalle: Sydney University
Oleksii Birulin: Sydney University

Empirical Economics, 2024, vol. 67, issue 1, No 13, 313-335

Abstract: Abstract Using a finite mixture regression approach, we identify two groups of individuals, family- and career-oriented. Depending on whether the employment status is treated as a binomial or trinomial (with part-time work) variable, 55–70% of women and 4–10% of men belong to the family-oriented group. Children variables are the main source of differences between the two identified groups and between the family-oriented group and the average woman. Treating all women as one group leads to averaged-out estimates of children effects and underestimates the importance of part-time work for family-oriented women. Our results are important for studying women’s labour supply and for designing policies aimed at encouraging women’s labour market involvement.

Keywords: Mothers; Labour supply; Sample heterogeneity; Mixture regression; Family-oriented; Career-oriented (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J16 J21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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