TY  - JOUR
A1  - Raz-Yurovich, Liat
T1  - Men´s and women´s economic activity and first marriage: Jews in Israel, 1987-1995
Y1  - 2010/05/18
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 933
EP  - 964
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.29
VL  - S12
IS  - 29
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/29/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/29/s12-29.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/29/s12-29.pdf
N2  - Using both analysis of the effect of lagged economic and current educational characteristics and analysis of life-course changes in these characteristics, this study provides insights into the theoretical debate concerning the relationships between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic stability hypothesis, the search hypothesis and the income pooling hypothesis; and counter the women´s economic independence hypothesis, but only to a certain degree. For men, we find a positive effect of employment stability, and a positive effect of earnings, which increase over time. For women, the effect of the salary has an inverse U shape, and employment stability has positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest odds of first marriage; while women reduce economic activity in anticipation of or due to marriage. Moreover, marriage is postponed for at least two years after educational accumulation is completed.

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