Women's Employment and the Gain to Marriage: The Specialization and Trading Model

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 23, Issue , 1997, Pages 431-453

  Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincade ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Delayed marriage; Marital instability; Theory of marriage; Women's independence effect

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; EMPLOYMENT--WOMEN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MARRIAGE; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MARRIAGE POSTPONEMENT; MARRIAGE--DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; NUPTIALITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AMERICAS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMIC FACTORS; EMPLOYMENT--WOMEN; MACROECONOMIC FACTORS; MARRIAGE PATTERNS; MARRIAGE POSTPONEMENT; MARRIAGE--DETERMINANTS; NORTH AMERICA; NORTHERN AMERICA; NUPTIALITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AMERICAS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EMPLOYMENT; MARRIAGE; NORTH AMERICA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0031283023     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.23.1.431     Document Type: Article

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