Female labour force intermittency and current earnings: switching regression model with unknown sample selection

Julie Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts

Applied Economics, 2005, vol. 37, issue 5, 545-560

Abstract: Using the Health and Retirement Survey from the USA, this paper finds a 16% selectivity-corrected wage penalty among women who engage in intermittent labour market activity. This penalty is experienced at a low level of intermittent activity, but appears to not 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.

Date: 2005
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