Relative education, parenthood, and couples' division of paid work: evidence from German census data
Abstract: Educational expansion, the massive increase of women’s labor force participation, and assortative mating have reduced asymmetries in educational achievements and in career resources between women and men in virtually every Western society. This paper provides an analysis of the association between partners' education, parenthood, and spouses' relative labor supply in East and West Germany. Education is considered from two angles: as an indicator for resources on the labor market or as an indicator for gender attitudes. We apply cross-sectional data from the 2011 German Microcensus, comprising 57,366 couple households. For our estimations, we use General Linear Models. Because of high case numbers, we are able to estimate several interaction effects in statistical powerful detail. We find that (1) a woman's share of paid work is higher, the higher she is educated; (2) women with higher education than their male partners realize higher shares of relative employment (in comparison to
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Relative Bildung, Elternschaft und Aufteilung der Erwerbsarbeit - Belege aus dem deutschen Mikrozensus
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Zeitschrift für Familienforschung ; 30 (2018) 1 ; 96-119
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Wirtschaft
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
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2018
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10.3224/zff.v30i1.06
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-56542-2
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:35 AM CEST
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Associated
- Buschner, Andrea
- Adam, Ursula
- Schulz, Florian
- SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
Time of origin
- 2018
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