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This paper explores the earnings consequences of women's competing familial and work commitments. Data from the 1967 Survey ofEconomic Opportunity are used to examine marital-status differences in the effects of schooling, occupational status, extent of employment and child status on women's earnings. Equations predicting earnings are estimated separately for women in each marital status using ordinary least-squares regression techniques. The analyses support the conclusion that currently-married women receive smaller economic benefits from schooling and occupational status because of interrupted labor force participation and familial constraints. However, because of their greater economic need, previously-married women overcome some of the disadvantages of reduced work experience.
Paula M. Hudis (Sat,) studied this question.
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