Labor Market Characteristics and the Labor Force Participation of Individuals,

Abstract

If there is a distinctively sociological perspective on human behavior, it is one that is highly sensitive to the way that seemingly individual-level processes are shaped and conditioned by the cultural (e.g., Durkheim, 1895) or material l(e.g., Marx and Engels, 1922) conditions of the collectivities in which people live. In its most distilled form, this perspective focuses neither on the properties or collectivities nor on the characteristics of individuals, but on the interaction between individual and collective phenomena in shaping the actions of individuals. In this paper, we apply this perspective to the analysis of married women's labor force participation. At the theoretical level, we formulate a set of hypotheses about the ways in which demographic and economic characteristics of labor markets intensify or weaken the impact of married women's individual characteristics on their individual probabilities of labor force participation. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA114926

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  • Linda J. Waite
  • Ross M. Stolzenberg

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