The positive impact of women’s employment on divorce: Context, selection, or anticipation?

Vignoli, Daniele; Matysiak, Anna; Styrc, Marta

doi:10.4054/demres.2018.38.37

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“…Such a strategy may lead to an upward bias in the effect of women's employment on the risk of divorce if married women increase their involvement in the labor market in response to a decline in their satisfaction with marriage and fear marriage disruption (Oppenheimer, 1997;Özcan & Breen, 2012). Support for such anticipatory adjustments can be found in the empirical literature (see, e.g., Poortman, 2005;Vignoli, Matysiak, Styrc, & Tocchioni 2016). Thus, as a sensitivity check, we reestimated a set of models excluding those women who entered the labor market during the 3 years preceding the first wave (2003).…”

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Employed Women and Marital Union Stability: It Helps When Men Help

Vignoli

2017

Journal of Family Issues

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A new strand of studies has called into question standard microeconomic predictions of a positive association between women’s economic independence and marital union dissolution. We investigate whether and how the gender division of labor channels the impact of women’s employment on marital union disruption, utilizing data on heterosexual couples from the 2003 and 2007 waves of the Italian nationally representative “Family and Social Subject” survey (N = 2,871) and applying techniques of mediation analysis. We suggest that women’s employment does not have a negative effect per se on union stability, and that women’s paid work becomes detrimental to the stability of the union only if the men’s contribution to unpaid work is limited.

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Employed Women and Marital Union Stability: It Helps When Men Help

Vignoli

2017

Journal of Family Issues

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“…Although the incidence of new family behaviour remains less evident in Italy than in Western European countries, Italy has experienced remarkable and varied changes regarding family-related behaviour in recent decades (De Rose and Strozza, 2015, pp. 74-77;Pirani and Vignoli, 2016;Vignoli et al, 2018). The Italian Statistical Office (Istat) has studiously documented these trends.…”

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Catching up! The sexual behaviour and opinions of Italian students (2000–2017)

Minello

Caltabiano

Dalla‐Zuanna

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While sexuality has radically changed across middle-high-income societies in recent years, only outdated studies are available for Italy. We aim to provide novel insights into the sexual behaviour and opinions of young Italians diachronically and through a gendered lens. Our analysis compares the results of two national samples of university students collected in 2000 and 2017. The sexual behaviour and opinions of young men and women seem to be converging in several respects. We observed a feminisation of male opinions and behaviour within couples, which is to say that men are more likely to experience first intercourse with a young woman of roughly the same age while in a stable relationship, and betray-or accept betrayal-with less frequency and willingness than in the past. Similarly, we found a masculinisation of female opinions and behaviour outside of stable relationships, for example, an increase in occasional partners, a net drop in the expectation that other women hold virgin status before marriage, and a doubling of the acceptance of casual sex. A few gender differences remain, especially concerning sexual double standards: young men and women are still subject to diverse rules guiding their sexual behaviour. Finally, acceptance of homosexuality has risen substantially-particularly among women.

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“…Based on Eckstein et al (2019) findings, this declination happened among younger-aged women and the key factor of this phenomena was the high maternal education. Dettling (2017) and Vignoli, Matysiak, Styrc, and Tocchioni (2018) found a strong positive relationship between marital disruption and the women's employment rate.…”

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Sustainability of Women’s Employment Rate for Malaysian Economic Development

Khin

Low

Sin

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IJIE

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This research paper develops a model for the sustainability of women’s employment rate in Malaysia’s economic development. This study examined annual data from 1982 to 2018, with 37 observations. A new econometric method was adopted to determine both short-run and long-run relationships among the variables using the Johansen Cointegration rank test, Vector Error Correction Method (VECM) with error correction model of cointegration equation. The VECM results revealed significant and positive short-term relationships between foreign direct investment, gross domestic product (GDP), and the negative short-term relationship of the lagged period of women’s employment rate to women employment rate (WER). The variables, GDP, education level, and women’s marital status are cointegrated and have a long-term relationship between WER in the cointegration equation. The Johansen Cointegration rank test also showed the existence of cointegration equations, and a long-term relationship between the variables. Eventually, the residual diagnosis, significant error term, and the performance of the model evaluation were found as satisfactory and valid. In short, this research paves the way for policymakers to construct a better policy for the future of women’s employment sustainability.

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The positive impact of women’s employment on divorce: Context, selection, or anticipation?

Cited by 41 publications

References 60 publications

Employed Women and Marital Union Stability: It Helps When Men Help

Employed Women and Marital Union Stability: It Helps When Men Help

Catching up! The sexual behaviour and opinions of Italian students (2000–2017)

Sustainability of Women’s Employment Rate for Malaysian Economic Development

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