Contextualizing the Education Effect on Women’s Employment: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis

Autor(en)

Nadia Steiber, Caroline Berghammer, Barbara Haas

Abstrakt

The study examines how and why the effect of education on women’s employment varies crossnationally. First, we present a theoretical model that (a) outlines the micro-level mechanisms underlying education effects on women’s employment in the couple context and (b) proposes contextual moderators at the country level. Second, we test the theoretical model against survey data from the United Nations Generations and Gender Programme for five European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, and Norway). The data comprise 10,048 educationally homogamous heterosexual couples involving a woman aged 20-45. Our results indicate that more highly educated couples are more likely to have dual-earner arrangements in each country, yet the strength of education effects varies substantially between countries and across the family life-cycle. In contrast to prior work, we find that education effects are not generally smaller in countries that are supportive of women’s employment. This relation only holds for later childrearing phases.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Wirtschaftssoziologie, Institut für Soziologie

Externe Organisation(en)

Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (WU)

Journal

Journal of Marriage and Family

Band

78

Seiten

246-261

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0022-2445

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12256

Publikationsdatum

02-2016

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504011 Familienforschung, 504002 Arbeitssoziologie, 504030 Wirtschaftssoziologie

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/contextualizing-the-education-effect-on-womens-employment-a-crossnational-comparative-analysis(cb274dab-f5a2-4868-9ff6-64279c4af166).html