Women's Labor Force Participation in Later Life: The Effects of Early Work and Family Experiences

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The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate a model of labor force participation among a group of older women in the United States. A comprehensive measure of women's combined work and family experiences across the adult life course was created. Employing data from the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation, we applied multinomial logistic regression techniques to examine the association between work-family experiences and later life labor supply. Our findings generally support an attachment hypothesis, showing that women who were the most workoriented throughout the life course were more likely than women who experienced family-related spells of nonlabormarket activity to participate in the labor force, either full-time or part-time, later in life

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