Married women's labor supply behavior in the 1990s : Differences by life-cycle stage

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to examine how various factors influence the labor supply of married women at different stages of the life cycle. Using data from the 1992-94 National Survey of Families and Households multinomial logit models of full-time employment part-time employment and nonparticipation in the labor force are estimated separately for various stages depending on the presence and ages of children. The effects of the husbands earnings and the wifes own wage on her employment decisions vary considerably across the life cycle stages and are highly nonlinear. Significantly among women who have preschoolers an increase in the wage rate raises the odds of part-time employment as opposed to either of the two extremes full-time work or nonparticipation. Two variables that have received little attention in previous research are found to be important and worthy of further investigation: religion and the presence of stepchildren in the household. The determinants of married womens labor supply behavior vary across the life cycle stages and include factors beyond those considered in conventional models of female employment. (authors)

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