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Recent college graduate women express frustration regarding the obstacles they will face in combining career and family … women in the past had a high success rate in combining family and career. Cohort I (graduating c. 1910) had a 50% rate of … career vary from 24% to 33% for all college graduate women in the sample. Thus only 13% to 17% of the group achieved 'family …
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predicts human capital should respond to market returns, social norms (e.g., disapproval of women working outside the home) may … weaken or even sever this link for girls. Though many studies have examined the link between women's wages or labor force … overcome these problems, we provided three years of recruiting services to help young women in randomly selected Indian …
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The more education, the less unemployment of women; this relationship is as strong as it is in the male labor force … women. This is because levels of educational differences in on-the-job (in-house) training are small among women, while … duration of unemployment are negligible among women, though they are observable, if small, among men. Recent growth in women …
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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to … affecting their labor supply and wages in the United States. We find, as expected, that women who migrate from countries with … culture and norms in affecting immigrant women's labor supply, since the effect of source country female labor supply on …
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The Ku Klux Klan reached its heyday in the mid-1920s, claiming millions of members. In this paper, we analyze the 1920s Klan, those who joined it, and the social and political impact that it had. We utilize a wide range of newly discovered data sources including information from Klan membership...
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In this paper, we develop and estimate a model of violence between romantically linked men and women. Physical violence …
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people reported mostly donating the grant or using it to help family or friends as reported saving it (10–18 percent), with …
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Alcohol consumption has been frequently linked to family violence. The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct … cross section and the 1985-1987 panel of the National Family Violence Survey. The 1985 data are a nationally representative …
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The typical family in the US is now a dual-earner couple, yet relatively few studies examine the retirement decision in … that men and women are similarly responsive to their own incentives. I further find that men are very responsive to their … wives' incentives but that women are not responsive to their husbands' incentives and present evidence to suggest that this …
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employment on family well-being, measured by maternal mental and overall health, parenting stress, and parenting quality. First … dynamic panel data models to examine the effects of maternal employment on family outcomes during the first 4.5 years of … factor in modeling family outcomes …
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