TY  - CHAP
AB  - Using data from the U.S. Census in conjunction with data from the Current Population Survey (1980–2009), I find little support for the opt-out revolution – highly educated women, relative to their less-educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods – if one focuses solely on the decision to work a positive number of hours irrespective of marital status or race. If one, however, focuses on both the decision to work a positive number of hours and the decision to adjust annual hours of work (conditional on working), I find some evidence of the opt-out revolution, particularly among white college educated married women in male-dominated occupations.
VL  - 33
SN  - 978-1-78052-333-0, 978-1-78052-332-3/0147-9121
DO  - 10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000033005
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-9121(2011)0000033005
AU  - Antecol Heather
ED  - Solomon W. Polachek
ED  - Konstantinos Tatsiramos
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Chapter 2 The Opt-Out Revolution: Recent Trends in Female Labor Supply
T2  - Research in Labor Economics
T3  - Research in Labor Economics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 45
EP  - 83
Y2  - 2024/05/13
ER  -