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A Cross‐country Comparison of Attitudes Towards Mothers Working and their Actual Labor Market Experience
Author(s) -
Albrecht James W.,
Edin PerAnders,
Vroman Susan B.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00147
Subject(s) - earnings , work (physics) , economics , labour economics , wage , work experience , demographic economics , survey data collection , cross country , hourly wage , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics , accounting , engineering
In this paper, we use data from the International Social Survey Project to present a cross‐country comparison of attitudes about the labor force participation of mothers. We also estimate earnings functions and probits for full‐time work and examine whether there is a link between attitudes and women’s actual labor market experience across countries. We find that while a woman’s own attitude about work does not directly influence her wage, it does influence the probability that she works full time.

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