Women's labour market position and divorce in the Netherlands: evaluating economic interpretations of the work effect
This article studies the influence of women's work on the risk of divorce, using data from the Netherlands. We examine economic interpretations of the work effect by disentangling the work effect into five dimensions: (a) the intensity of wife's work, (b) the status of wife's work, (c) potential labour market success, (d) relative labour market success (vis-à-vis the husband), and (e) the division of domestic labour. Our results show that working women have a 22 percent higher risk of divorce than women who do not work. Subsequently, our findings show that there is no significant positive effe... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2002 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Poortman , A R & Kalmijn , M 2002 , ' Women's labour market position and divorce in the Netherlands: evaluating economic interpretations of the work effect ' , European Journal of Population , vol. 18 , pp. 175-202 . https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015520411449 |
Schlagwörter: | /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/decent_work_and_economic_growth / name=SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27231661 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/c90d0be0-818f-44c0-a23d-483817a56f01 |