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276 Young Women's Transportation and Labor Market Experiences Piyushimita (vonu) Thakuriah, lei Tang, and Shashi Menchu, University of Illinois at Chicago This paper examines the transportation and labor market experiences of women at a stage of life that has been called "emerging adulthood," "young adulthood," and even "older youth." Although young children and older individuals have been the focus of transportation policy research, research on mobility and transportation issues facing young adults is much more limited.
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277YouNG WoMeN'S TRANSPoRTATIoN AND lABoR MARKeT eXPeRIeNCeS of young adults are characterized by diversity. "About one-third of young persons in the united States go off to college after high school, another 40 percent move out of their parental home for independent living and work, and about 10 percent of men and 30 percent of women remain at home until marriage" (Arnett 2004)
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278 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 sonal vehicles to work, although there was a substantial difference in this respect between white and black women. Women's travel choices reflect the balance they seek between their jobs and their household responsibilities (Sarmiento 2000)
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279YouNG WoMeN'S TRANSPoRTATIoN AND lABoR MARKeT eXPeRIeNCeS parents and homeowners. It also has information about vehicle ownership, perceived transportation problems, and transportation services provided by the government job or training programs to those surveyed youth.
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280 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 and Zannaras 1973) ; and low-wage workers using transit services to reach jobs (Thakuriah et al.
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281YouNG WoMeN'S TRANSPoRTATIoN AND lABoR MARKeT eXPeRIeNCeS worked about 3 weeks less on average. Gender differences in the mean weeks worked overall are not large; gender differences become greater when one takes perceived difficulty into account.
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282 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 where X'i = vector of independent variables described below, b = a vector of parameters, ei ~ N(0, s 2)
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283YOUNG WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION AND LABOR MARKET EXPERIENCES sonal or spousal vehicle, minority status, marital status, urban–rural residency, and perceived difficulties with transportation, the differential between women's and men's job search distance is estimated to be about 0.42 mi. The model estimates that the total number of jobs held in a year increases job search distance, indicating that "job-shopping" motivates individuals to experiment with positions farther from home.
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284 WOMEN'S ISSUES IN TRANSPORTATION, VOLUME 2 the labor force, number of children in the household, mother's and father's schooling level, minority status, marital status, urban–rural residency, and perceived difficulties with transportation; and b = associated parameters. The estimated parameters of the model are given in the columns labeled Model II in Table 5.
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285YouNG WoMeN'S TRANSPoRTATIoN AND lABoR MARKeT eXPeRIeNCeS tors provide access to information about transportation services, including routes, schedules, and fares and may be connected to workforce development or placement services. Their most effective use will be in serving young women during job searching, placement, and mobility needs to connect to multiple jobs.
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286 WoMeN'S ISSueS IN TRANSPoRTATIoN, voluMe 2 Bureau of labor Statistics.
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287YouNG WoMeN'S TRANSPoRTATIoN AND lABoR MARKeT eXPeRIeNCeS Santrock, J
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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 46 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 www.TRB.org ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED Women's Issues in Transportation Summary of the 4th International Conference VOLUME 2: TECHNICAL PAPERS ISBN 978-0-309-16083-4 9 780309 160834 9 0 0 0 0 PR O C E E D IN G S 46 W om en's Issues in T ransportation–V olum e 2:TechnicalPapers NON-PROFIT ORG.
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