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

Julie Hotchkiss and Melinda Pitts

No 2003-33, FRB Atlanta Working Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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.

Date: 2003
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