Volume 22 - Article 29 | Pages 933–964
Men´s and women´s economic activity and first marriage: Jews in Israel, 1987-1995
Date received: | 11 Dec 2009 |
Date published: | 18 May 2010 |
Word count: | 9544 |
Keywords: | education, employment, event history analysis, income, Israel, life course analysis, longitudinal, marriage |
DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2010.22.29 |
Updated Items: | On January 28, 2013 a typing mistake was corrected on page 947. |
Weblink: | You will find all publications in this Special Collection “Economic uncertainty and family dynamics in Europe” at http://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/ |
Abstract
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.
Author's Affiliation
Liat Raz-Yurovich - Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
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