Black Teen Childbearing: Reexamining the Segmented Labor Market Hypothesis

This paper tests the hypothesis that black women are more likely than white women to become teenage mothers because black women expect to find themselves in the secondary labor market consisting of jobs which do not reward education. A switching model with unknown regimes endogenously sorts women in...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The Review of Black political economy 2000-04, Vol.27 (4), p.27-42
Hauptverfasser:	Meyer, Christine Siegwarth, Mukerjee, Swati
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adolescent Mothers Adolescents African American teenage mothers African Americans - education African Americans - ethnology African Americans - history African Americans - psychology African Americans - statistics & numerical data Age Birth rates Births Black people Black White Differences Black women Black youth Career Choice Childbearing Childbirth & labor Comparative studies Demographic aspects Econometrics Economic aspects Economic conditions Employment Employment - economics Employment - history Employment - psychology Employment - statistics & numerical data Employment - trends Female Fertility History of medicine History, 20th Century Human capital Humans Hypotheses Labor conditions Labor force Labor Market Labor Market Segmentation Mothers Mothers - classification Mothers - history Mothers - psychology Mothers - statistics & numerical data Pregnancy Pregnancy in Adolescence - ethnology Pregnancy in Adolescence - psychology Pregnancy in Adolescence - statistics & numerical data Racial differences Social Class Social conditions Teenage parents Teenage pregnancy United States Wages & salaries White people Women Women - education Women - history Women - psychology Workers Young Adult
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Zusammenfassung:	This paper tests the hypothesis that black women are more likely than white women to become teenage mothers because black women expect to find themselves in the secondary labor market consisting of jobs which do not reward education. A switching model with unknown regimes endogenously sorts women into sectors.
ISSN:	0034-6446 1936-4814
DOI:	10.1007/BF02717261