Linda A. Renzulli

Publications (3)0 Total impact

• Article: Economic Freedom or Self-Imposed Strife: Work-Life Conflict, Gender, and Self-Employment

  Jeremy Reynolds, Linda A Renzulli
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  ABSTRACT: Several theories, including boundary theory andwork-family border theory, indicate that self-employment mediates work-lifeconflict among men and women in the labor force.This research seeks toexamine the influence of self-employment on work-life conflict.Aliterature review summarizes the findings of past research regarding both howwork interferes with life (WIL) and how life interferes with work (LIW),resulting in the proposition of several relevant hypotheses regarding variablesincluding autonomy, location, and gender.To test the hypotheses, datafrom the 1997 National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW) are utilized. Thestudy produced a sample of 2,153 U.S. workers, including the self-employed andwage workers.The data are analyzed, and the data analysis and results aredetailed.The factors influencing both WIL and LIW are described inrelation to the corresponding hypotheses. The primary findings of the research indicate the following: (1) work causesa greater interference with life among wage workers, while life causes greaterwork interference among the self-employed; (2) autonomy and temporal controlappear to mediate the interference of work and life among the self-employed;and (3) women appear to benefit more from self-employment when compared tomen.The implications of these findings are discussed, and suggestions forfuture research are provided. (AKP)
  ERN: Intertemporal Consumer Choice; Life Cycle Models & Savings (Topic). 11/2009;
• Article: December 12, 2001 It's Up In the Air, Or Is It?

  Linda A. Renzulli, Howard E. Aldrich, Jeremy Reynolds
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  ABSTRACT: often have difficulty envisioning connections between individual action and social structural outcomes. This is not surprising, given that US culture explicitly values and even celebrates individual control and achievement. Whether they live in a blue-collar neighborhood in Chicago or a penthouse apartment on Fifth Avenue in New York, Americans tend to believe that their achievements are solely the result of individual performance. Connecting historical and social processes with individual outcomes is far less intuitive in our culture than is blaming the victim or praising the victor. For example, studies of Americans' beliefs about stratification consistently show that people believe that others are poor because of insufficient motivation and dissolute morals, rather than because of limited opportunities or other contextual factors (Kluegel and Smith 1981). Americans tend to believe that opportunities to get 2 ahead are available for everyone and that people's position in the stratifi
  01/2002;
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  Article: Passing on privilege: Resources provided by self-employed parents to their self-employed children

  Howard E Aldrich, Linda A Renzulli, Nancy Langton