The impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothing

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dc.contributor.authorDeWeese, Gailen
dc.contributor.committeechairNorton, Marjorieen
dc.contributor.committeememberDensmore, Barbaraen
dc.contributor.committeememberJohnson, Thomas G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMarshall, Mary Helenen
dc.contributor.committeememberNorton, George W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTozier, Enid F.en
dc.contributor.departmentClothing and Textilesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-08-13T14:38:34Zen
dc.date.available2014-08-13T14:38:34Zen
dc.date.issued1987en
dc.description.abstractThe objective of this research was to analyze the impact of wives’ employment status and occupation on household expenditures for clothing, when controlling for income and various sociodemographic variables. The sample consisted of 2,285 households selected from the public use tapes of the Quarterly Interview component of the 1980-81 Consumer Expenditure Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A four-stage econometric analysis of the data included: (1) probit analysis to obtain predicted probabilities of wives’ labor force participation; (2) tobit analysis to predict wives’ wage rates; (3) tobit analyses of six separate clothing expenditure models that contained predicted values from (1) and (2); and (4) tobit analysis of a clothing expenditure model that contained predicted values from (2) in addition to dummy variables for wives’ occupations. The predicted probability of the wife’s employment status was not significant in explaining expenditures for household, women’s, boy’s, or infant’s clothing. Expenditures for men’s clothing were positively affected by an increase in the predicted probability of the wife’s employment, while expenditures for girl’s clothing were negatively impacted by an increase in the predicted probability. Households with women employed in Professional, Traditional, or Uniformed occupations exhibited higher expenditures for clothing than did households with women who were homemakers.en
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dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.extentix, 128 leavesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/49845en
dc.publisherVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 16881976en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V856 1987.D483en
dc.subject.lcshClothing and dressen
dc.titleThe impact of married women's employment on household expenditures for clothingen
dc.typeDissertationen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineClothing and Textilesen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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