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Employment Efforts of Family Members—Who Works and How Much 1
Author(s) -
Metzen Edward J.,
Helmick Sandra A.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x7400200402
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , overtime , work (physics) , nonmarket forces , rural area , demographic economics , economic growth , labour economics , geography , business , socioeconomics , sociology , economics , political science , engineering , factor market , mechanical engineering , market economy , archaeology , law
A new measure of intensity of employment of human resources, which takes into account not only market work effort but certain constraints imposed by nonmarket obligations and disability of family members as well, was developed and utilized to assess the productive efforts of family units and their individual members. Families in small towns in the Missouri valley and in low‐income areas of three metropolitan locations were included in this rural‐urban comparative study. The intensity of employment of families in the small towns was found to exceed that in the urban areas due to overtime work effort on the part of husbands and a higher incidence of employment of wives and other family members. Those wives who did work in the urban areas, however, achieved higher employment intensities than the working wives in the small towns.