A stalled revolution? : what can we learn from women's drop-out to part-time jobs : a comparative analysis of Germany and the UK
Martina Dieckhoff, Vanessa Gash, Antje Mertens, Laura Romeu Gordo
This study examines how within-couple inequalities, that is power differences between men and women in a partnership, act as predictors of transitions from full-time to part-time employment applying Heckman corrected probit models in three different institutional and cultural contexts; Eastern Germany, Western Germany and the United Kingdom. The analyses show that when women are in a weaker position within their relationships they are more likely to drop-out of full-time work, but that this propensity varies by context. The authors also find an increased tendency over time for women to leave full-time for part-time employment in both Eastern and Western Germany, but observe no such trend in the UK. This is suggestive of ongoing incompatibilities in the institutional support for equality in dual-earning in Germany. The study uses longitudinal data covering the period 1992 until 2012 from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for Germany and from the British Household Panel (BHPS) and the "Understanding Society" data for the UK.
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2016
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Authors: | Dieckhoff, Martina ; Gash, Vanessa ; Mertens, Antje ; Romeu Gordo, Laura |
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[Kiel : ZBW |
Subject: | Part-time employment | Family | Wages | Housework | Cross-national comparison | Deutschland | Germany | Teilzeitarbeit | Großbritannien | United Kingdom | Weibliche Arbeitskräfte | Women workers | Vergleich | Comparison | Lohnstruktur | Wage structure | Geschlecht | Gender | Hausarbeit | Arbeitsangebot | Labour supply |
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Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource (circa 35 Seiten) Illustrationen |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/169352 [Handle] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756240