Do women prefer women's work?

Autor: Julie R. Dahlquist, W. Robert Reed
Rok vydání: 1994
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Zdroj: Applied Economics. 26:1133-1144
ISSN: 1466-4283
0003-6846
DOI: 10.1080/00036849400000111
Popis: A new methodology is implemented to determine whether job characteristics can explain why women are concentrated in low-paying, female-dominated occupations. Extensive information on jobs and labour market histories are collected from the 1982 National Longitudinal Survey, Youth Cohort, for women and men characterized by substantial labour market attachment. Significant differences in nonpecuniary job characteristics between the male and female samples are found to exist. Nevertheless, we find no evidence that women differentially favour those job characteristics commonly associated with ‘women's work’.
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