The structure of women's employment in comparative perspective

Pettit, Becky; & Hook, Jennifer. (2005). The structure of women's employment in comparative perspective. Social Forces, 84(2), 779-801.

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Pettit, Becky; & Hook, Jennifer. (2005). The structure of women's employment in comparative perspective. Social Forces, 84(2), 779-801.

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In this paper we analyze social survey data from 19 countries using multi-level modeling methods in an effort to synthesize structural and institutional accounts for variation in women's employment. Observed demographic characteristics show much consistency in their relationship to womens employment across countries, yet there is significant variation in the effect of demographic characteristics on womens employment across countries. Disentangling specific policy conditions from overall policy generosity leads us to discover important non-linearities in the effects of parental leave on the employment of women with young children, and that federally supported childcare is positively related to the probability of employment of married women and women with young children.

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Pettit, Becky
Hook, Jennifer

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2005

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Social Forces

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84

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2

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779-801

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10.1353/sof.2006.0029

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