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A stalled revolution? What can we learn from women’s drop-out to part-time jobs: a comparative analysis of Germany and the UK
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Abstract 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 Germa... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
old federal states; part-time work; division of labor; housework; partnership; Federal Republic of Germany; household income; labor force participation; Great Britain; gender-specific factors; New Federal States; inequality
Classification
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Labor Market Research
Free Keywords
cross-national comparison
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 129-140
Journal
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility (2016) 46 (B)
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169352
ISSN
0276-5624
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0