Families at Work: An Analysis by Sex of Child Workers in the Cotton Textile Industry
分析了棉纺织业中女孩和男孩在学业与工作经历上的差异,发现家庭生产需求(如幼童、寄宿者、房屋所有权)以及职业隔离导致的收入差异,解释了女孩受教育更多、男孩更早工作的现象。
Differences in the school and work experience of young girls and boys are explained by factors related to the demand for household production including the presence of young children, boarders and lodgers, and home ownership. Gender based differences in job characteristics and hourly earnings associated with occupational segregation contributed to the observed pattern of higher schooling investment by girls and earlier work experience by boys.