Determinants of the Timing of Labour Force Transitions Among Ever-married, Ever-worked, Women in Canada [microform]

Résumé du livre

This thesis presents a critique of two general theoretical approaches to the study of growth in female work attachment: the structural coercion approach and the voluntarist approach. Given the common practice among those who subscribe to the structural coercion tradition to oversimplify patterns of women's work, one hypothesis predicts that factors which impact positively (or negatively) on a woman's probability of entry into the work force may exert the same impact on her probability of leaving. Secondly, many structural coercionists fail to make a unique prediction of the determinants of change in attachment. In contrast, voluntarists identify the growth of tastes for market work as a key determinant. As a result, it is hypothesized that the growth in work attachment on the part of recent birth cohorts is less responsive to demographic and economic constraints and more responsive to emerging tastes for market work.