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Article: Labor Market Decisions of Married Women: With Emphasis on Part-Time Employment.
- Article from:
- International Advances in Economic Research
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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JOSEPH S. FALZONE [*]
Part-time employment may be viewed as a bridge between nonemployment and full-time employment or as an alternative to full-time employment. For married women with young children, part-time employment represents an efficient labor market solution to balancing the responsibilities of career and family. This paper estimates the probability of part-time employment for married women by utilizing a multinomial logit model for data extracted from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics [2000]. The paper focuses on the analysis of qualitative dependent variables to predict the probabilities for three distinct labor market decisions. The sample is further ...