2007
DOI: 10.20377/jfr-283
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Dual-earner and dual-career couples in contemporary Italy

Abstract: Based on a national longitudinal data set, this essays analyses the conditions that favour the formation of dual earner, and specifically dual-career couples in Italy, i.e., in a country characterized by comparatively low women’s labour force participation and intra-generational mobility. Dual-career couples include all couples in which both spouses belong to the higher occupational classes according to Erikson’s and Goldthorpe’s classification. Using EHA and cross-lag models, we have tested the role of women’… Show more

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“…(J_Gabriella) These confident open endings were expressed by women who, with respect to their partners, were more qualified or had achieved a more stable professional standing. This result, in addition to confirming the significant impact that the level of education has on the perception of control, as a central resource upon which to build a life course (Mirowsky and Ross, 2007), seems to go in the direction indicated by bargaining theory, according to which the women are able to remain in the job market, even after childbirth, if they display resources that guarantee them greater power to negotiate with their partner (Lucchini et al, 2007).…”
Section: Confident Open Endsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…(J_Gabriella) These confident open endings were expressed by women who, with respect to their partners, were more qualified or had achieved a more stable professional standing. This result, in addition to confirming the significant impact that the level of education has on the perception of control, as a central resource upon which to build a life course (Mirowsky and Ross, 2007), seems to go in the direction indicated by bargaining theory, according to which the women are able to remain in the job market, even after childbirth, if they display resources that guarantee them greater power to negotiate with their partner (Lucchini et al, 2007).…”
Section: Confident Open Endsupporting
confidence: 59%
“…The effect of age becomes positive for students graduating at 30 or later, maybe because the choice of graduating later allows to get a job promotion and to move on in their careers. The positive effect of marriage on upward mobility may be explained by the prevalence of homogamy couples that characterise contemporary Italy (Lucchini et al 2007;Schizzerotto and Marzadro 2008).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…That is the reason why some authors distinguish couples who live a dual career from other couples. This is because, considering the terminology, the literature shows a wide range of classifications that describe and characterize families in which couples work (DUXBURY et al, 2007;LUCCHINI et al, 2007). It is noteworthy that not all families (in which couples work) practice the dual career.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%