Fosdick, Sophia (2019) Understanding the Causes of Female Labor-Force Participation Stagnation in the U.S. Undergraduate thesis, under the direction of Natalia Kolesnikova from Economics, The University of Mississippi.
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Abstract
This thesis examines the stagnation and decline in U.S. women’s labor force participation from the 1990s onwards. Through literature analysis and economic theory, I determined that different subgroups in the U.S. female population between the ages of 25 and 54 had differing trends in labor supply behaviors. I then used regression analysis of U.S. Census data from years 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2010 to chart these behaviors and understand the groups facing the largest decline. Through my data, I found that uneducated mothers of young children were facing the largest decline, with an increasingly negative response as the decades progress, and driving the aggregate trends towards stagnation.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) |
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| Creators: | Fosdick, Sophia |
| Student's Degree Program(s): | B.A. in Economics |
| Thesis Advisor: | Natalia Kolesnikova |
| Thesis Advisor's Department: | Economics |
| Institution: | The University of Mississippi |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor |
| Depositing User: | Sophia Fosdick |
| Date Deposited: | 20 May 2019 16:18 |
| Last Modified: | 20 May 2019 16:18 |
| URI: | http://thesis.honors.olemiss.edu/id/eprint/1585 |
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