Opt-out rates at motherhood across high-education career paths. Selection versus work environment.

Autor/inn/en	Herr, Jane Leber; Wolfram, Catherine
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Opt-out rates at motherhood across high-education career paths. Selection versus work environment. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ausstiegsquoten im Berufsverlauf hochqualifizierter Mütter. Selektion vs. Arbeitsumgebung.
Quelle	Cambridge (2009), 57 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 14717
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Entscheidung; Familie; Mutter; Kinderbetreuung; Arbeitsbedingungen; Arbeit; Beruf; Berufsausstieg; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Freizeit; Arbeitspapier; Hoch Qualifizierter; USA
Abstract	"This paper examines the propensity of highly educated women to exit the labor force at motherhood. We focus on systematic differences across women with various graduate degrees to analyze whether these speak to differences in the capacity to combine children with work over a variety of high-education career paths. Working with a sample of Harvard alumnae observed 10 and 15 years after graduation, we find that the labor force attachment of mothers at the 15th year is highest among MDs (94 percent) and lowest among MBAs (72 percent) and women with no advanced degree (69 percent). We then use a rich set of biographical information on the alumnae, combined with data on their workplaces, to try to disentangle whether the working patterns observed reflect selection on the types of women pursuing different graduate degrees, or variation in the difficulty of combining work with family along different career paths. Our results suggest that work environments contribute to women's decision to exit the labor force at motherhood." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1993 bis 2008. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/3