Is Part-Time Employment after Childbirth a Stepping-Stone into Full-Time Work? A Cohort Study for East and West Germany

Kelle, Nadiya; Simonson, Julia; Gordo, Laura Romeu

doi:10.1080/13545701.2016.1257143

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“…Some scholars have argued that the wider societal “gender arrangement” contributes to the diffusion of PTW (Anxo et al, 2007; Boeckmann et al, 2015; Lewis et al, 2008). In countries such as the Netherlands, Germany, and Austria, 2 mothers of young children still appear to be expected not to work full-time (Anxo et al, 2007; Booth and van Ours, 2013; Gutiérrez-Doménech, 2005; Kelle et al, 2017; Lewis and Plomien, 2009). Women in Southern Europe, on the other hand, often completely withdraw from the LM to be full-time mothers.…”

Section: Part-time Work and Women’s Employmentmentioning

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Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work?

Barbieri

Cutuli

Guetto

et al. 2019

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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Part-time employment has repeatedly been proposed as a solution for integrating women into the labor market; however, empirical evidence supporting a causal link is mixed. In this text, we investigate the extent to which increasing part-time employment is a valid means of augmenting women’s labor market participation. We pay particular attention to the institutional context and the related characteristics of part-time employment in European countries to test the conditions under which this solution is a viable option. The results reveal that part-time employment may strengthen female employment in Continental Europe and especially in Southern Europe, where an increase in part-time employment—even if it is demand-side driven—leads to greater employment participation among women. We also discuss some policy implications and trade-offs: Although part-time work can lead to higher numbers of employed women, it does so at the cost of increasing gendered labor market segregation. We analyze data from the European Labor Force Survey (EU-LFS) 1992–2011 for 19 countries and 188 regions and exploit regional variation over time while controlling for time-constant regional characteristics, time-varying regional labor market features, and (time-varying) confounding factors at the national level.

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Section: Part-time Work and Women’s Employmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work?

Barbieri

Cutuli

Guetto

et al. 2019

International Journal of Comparative Sociology

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“…Recent research finds an increased tendency for men to become involved in care-giving and for women to remain in employment to a greater extent than in previous years. Yet the male breadwinner together with the female carer models still remain predominant in a modified form in today's German society (Schober, 2014; Trappe et al , 2015; Kelle et al ., 2017).…”

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Combining employment and care-giving: how differing care intensities influence employment patterns among middle-aged women in Germany

Kelle

2018

Ageing and Society

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Given an ageing population and increased participation by women in the labour force, the relationship between unpaid care and the availability of women to the labour force is gaining in importance as an issue. This article assesses the impact of unpaid care on transitions into employment by women aged between 45 and 59 years. It uses the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) from the years 2001–2014 to estimate Cox regression models for 6,201 employed women. The results indicate that women with higher caring responsibilities and women with lower caring responsibilities are heterogeneous in terms of the socio-economic characteristics that they exhibit: higher-intensity care providers tend to have a lower level of educational attainment and a weaker attachment to the labour force than women with less-intensive caring responsibilities. Furthermore, while women with more-intensive caring roles are highly likely to exit the labour market altogether, female carers with less-intensive roles seem to be able to combine work and care better. These results highlight the importance of providing more affordable institutional and professional care services, especially for low- and medium-income families.

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“…To examine how far the remaining migrant–native gaps are driven by other factors, we conducted several sensitivity analyses, splitting the sample into specific groups (see online Supplemental Figure A1). Motherhood could be one reason for differences in the findings (Kelle et al, 2017). For the distinction between mothers and non-mothers, we conclude that the observed migrant–native gap across different working time categories for the two ‘precarious’ outcomes mainly applies to non-mothers, whereas for mothers no significant interaction effects are found.…”

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Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain

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Steinmetz²

2020

Work, Employment and Society

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Using panel data from the Spanish Labour Force Survey (2008–2016), we explore the risks and opportunities of job transitions (to unemployment, inactivity, full-time work and promotion) of female immigrants and natives in part-time work. This is the first study examining the two possible functions of part-time employment (stepping stone or trap) for different types of women across different working time categories. It contributes to the ongoing discussion about the function of non-standard work by applying an intersectional lens. Our results confirm that the signalling of different types of part-time job works positively, although the signal is weaker for immigrant women, particularly for those working in marginal and substantial part-time employment. The main sociodemographic and structural drivers of labour transitions explain only partially the gross migrant–native differences. As female immigrants experience a stronger outsider position, additional determinants of signalling beyond human capital and labour market segmentation factors might be at work.

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Is Part-Time Employment after Childbirth a Stepping-Stone into Full-Time Work? A Cohort Study for East and West Germany

Cited by 18 publications

References 26 publications

Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work?

Part-time employment as a way to increase women’s employment: (Where) does it work?

Combining employment and care-giving: how differing care intensities influence employment patterns among middle-aged women in Germany

Trapped in Precariousness? Risks and Opportunities of Female Immigrants and Natives Transitioning from Part-Time Jobs in Spain

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