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Why Participation Rates of Black and White Wives Differ

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  • Duran Bell

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Analysis of labor force participation of black and white wives by family personal characteristics, from the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity, revealed that 61.4 percent of black wives and 46.7 percent of white wives worked in 1966. Full-time work was more common among black wives in better educated, more stable families, and among white wives in less educated, poorer, unstable families. The reverse applied to part-time employment. Results reflect the opening of white-collar jobs to qualified black women, as an alternative to domestic service. Strong sexist barriers to high-status employment of women explain the relatively low participation of upper middle-class white wives.

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  • Duran Bell, 1974. "Why Participation Rates of Black and White Wives Differ," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 9(4), pages 465-479.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:9:y:1974:i:4:p:465-479
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    1. Lynn E. Browne, 1990. "Why do New Englanders work so much?," New England Economic Review, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, issue Mar, pages 33-46.
    2. Sundstrom, William A., 2001. "Discouraging Times: The Labor Force Participation of Married Black Women, 1930-1940," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 123-146, January.
    3. Troske, Kenneth R. & Voicu, Alexandru, 2010. "Joint estimation of sequential labor force participation and fertility decisions using Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques," Labour Economics, Elsevier, vol. 17(1), pages 150-169, January.
    4. Kenneth Troske & Alexandru Voicu, 2013. "The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 45(1), pages 483-521, August.
    5. Huoying Wu, 2007. "Can The Human Capital Approach Explain Life‐Cycle Wage Differentials Between Races And Sexes?," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 45(1), pages 24-39, January.
    6. James Stewart, 1979. "Contemporary patterns of black-white political economic inequality in the United States and South Africa," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 9(4), pages 359-391, June.

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