Relative Cohort Size, Relative Income, and Married Women's Labor Force Participation: United States, 1968-2010

Population and Development Review

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 631-648

  Macunovich, Diane J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REDLANDS   (United States)

^b IZA ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDBEARING; COHORT ANALYSIS; INCOME; MARRIAGE; WOMENS EMPLOYMENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84871822768     PISSN: 00987921     EISSN: 17284457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2012.00530.x     Document Type: Article

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