PlumX Metrics
SSRN
Embed PlumX Metrics

The Labor Supply of Married Women: Why Does it Differ Across U.S. Cities?

SSRN Electronic Journal
2007
  • 3
    Citations
  • 3,043
    Usage
  • 9
    Captures
  • 1
    Mentions
  • 2
    Social Media
Metric Options:   Counts1 Year3 Year

Metrics Details

  • Citations
    3
    • Citation Indexes
      3
  • Usage
    3,043
    • Abstract Views
      2,789
    • Downloads
      254
  • Captures
    9
  • Mentions
    1
    • News Mentions
      1
      • News
        1
  • Social Media
    2
    • Shares, Likes & Comments
      2
      • Facebook
        2
  • Ratings
    • Download Rank
      241,287

Most Recent News

Beyond Maternity Leave

This is the sixth story in a seven-part series looking at women’s ambitions in the years following college. It’s hard to run headlong into the issue of women and work without face-planting over the current state of paid parental leave in the United States. Article after article reports on the barely existent policies, punctuated with reports that range from depressing (only the U.S. and Papua New

Article Description

Using Census Public Use Micro Sample (PUMS) data for 1980, 1990 and 2000, this paper documents a little-noticed feature of U.S. labor markets that there is wide variation in the labor market participation rates and annual work hours of white married women across urban areas. This variation is also large among sub-groups, including women with children and those with different levels of education. Among the explanations for this variation one emerges as particularly important: married women's labor force participation decisions appear to be very responsive to commuting times. There is a strong empirical evidence demonstrating that labor force participation rates of married women are negatively correlated with commuting time. What is more, the analysis shows that metropolitan areas which experienced relatively large increases in average commuting time between 1980 and 2000 also had slower growth of labor force participation of married women. This feature of local labor markets may have important implications for policy and for further research.

Bibliographic Details

Dan Black; Natalia Kolesnikova; Lowell J. Taylor

Elsevier BV

female labor supply; local labor markets; commuting time

Provide Feedback

Have ideas for a new metric? Would you like to see something else here?Let us know