Artikel

A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: A comparative analysis of Germany and the UK

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.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: Research in Social Stratification and Mobility ; ISSN: 0276-5624 ; Volume: 46, Part B ; Year: 2016 ; Pages: 129-140 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Part-time employment
Family
Wages
Housework
Cross-national comparison

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Dieckhoff, Martina
Gash, Vanessa
Mertens, Antje
Romeu Gordo, Laura
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Elsevier
ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics
(where)
Amsterdam
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2016.09.001
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  • Artikel

Associated

  • Dieckhoff, Martina
  • Gash, Vanessa
  • Mertens, Antje
  • Romeu Gordo, Laura
  • Elsevier
  • ZBW – Leibniz Information Centre for Economics

Time of origin

  • 2016

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