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-worker effect”—the greater propensity
of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment—
is …, the wife may enter the
labor force to make up for the loss in family income—a phenomenon labor economists
have labeled …’s labor force participation rate has doubled from 30 percent to over 60 percent
(Blau, Ferber, and Winkler (2005)).
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