Female breadwinner – Erwerbsentscheidungen von Frauen im Haushaltskontext
Nach wie vor ist die ungleiche Verteilung von Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit zwischen den Partnern der Regelfall. Traditionelle familiäre Arrangements werden dabei durch institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen bevorzugt. Die Folge ist, dass Frauen immer noch beruflich zurückstecken - auch wenn sie den Hauptteil des Haushaltseinkommens erarbeiten und damit die Rolle der Familienernährerin übernehmen.
Dieses Themendossier widmet sich den Bedingungen und Auswirkungen der Erwerbsentscheidung von Frauen sowie empirischen Studien, die sich mit der Arbeitsteilung der Partner im Haushaltskontext befassen.
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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia: the role of spousal participation (2013)
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Mavromaras, Kostas & Rong Zhu (2013): Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia. The role of spousal participation. (IZA discussion paper 7581), Bonn, 26 S.
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"In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to work or not influences positively, and in a causal fashion, the decision of her husband to work or not. In our paper we use counterfactual analysis to estimate the impact of the increasing labour force participation of a wife on her husband's participation. We find that the increased labour force participation of married women observed between 2002 and 2011 has been responsible for about a 4 percentage points increase in the participation of their mature age husbands." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Australian fathers' work and family time in comparative and temporal perspective (2012)
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Craig, Lyn & Killian Mullan (2012): Australian fathers' work and family time in comparative and temporal perspective. In: Journal of family studies, Jg. 18, H. 2/3, S. 165-174. DOI:10.5172/jfs.2012.18.2-3.165
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"Expectations of fathers have moved from being financial providers to also taking an active, hands-on role in the care of children. What does this mean for contemporary Australian fathers' time commitments to work and family? This paper draws together studies using time use data from Australia, USA, France, Italy and Denmark to show change and continuity in Australian fathers' time over the period 1992 - 2006, and how they currently compare with fathers in the other countries. It discusses the policy context of each country, which may inform fathering norms and behavior, and looks at their employment time, their housework, the specific childcare activities they undertake, and how they share childcare with mothers in relative terms. The research shows gender disparities remain wide, but despite long work hours, Australian fathers are high care participants in world terms, their childcare time is going up, and they are increasing their repertoire of care activities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Child care availability, quality and affordability: are local problems related to labour supply? (2011)
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Breunig, Robert, Andrew Weiss, Chikako Yamauchi, Xiaodong Gong & Joseph Mercante (2011): Child care availability, quality and affordability: are local problems related to labour supply? In: The Economic Record, Jg. 87, H. 276, S. 109-124. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00707.x
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"We examine whether responses to survey questions about child care availability, quality and cost, aggregated at the local geographical level, have any explanatory power in models of partnered female and lone parent labour supply. We find evidence that partnered women and lone parents who live in areas with more reports of lack of availability, low quality or costly child care work fewer hours and are less likely to work than women in areas with fewer reported difficulties with child care." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How mothers and fathers share childcare: a cross-national time-use comparison (2011)
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Craig, Lyn & Killian Mullan (2011): How mothers and fathers share childcare. A cross-national time-use comparison. In: American Sociological Review, Jg. 76, H. 6, S. 834-861. DOI:10.1177/0003122411427673
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"In most families today, childcare remains divided unequally between fathers and mothers. Scholars argue that persistence of the gendered division of childcare is due to multiple causes, including values about gender and family, disparities in paid work, class, and social context. It is likely that all of these factors interact, but to date researchers have not explored such interactions. To address this gap, we analyze nationally representative time-use data from Australia, Denmark, France, and Italy. These countries have different employment patterns, social and family policies, and cultural attitudes toward parenting and gender equality. Using data from matched married couples, we conduct a cross-national study of mothers' and fathers' relative time in childcare, divided along dimensions of task (i.e., routine versus non-routine activities) and co-presence (i.e., caring for children together as a couple versus caring solo). Results show that mothers' and fathers' work arrangements and education relate modestly to shares of childcare, and this relationship differs across countries. We find cross-national variation in whether more equal shares result from the behavior of mothers, fathers, or both spouses. Results illustrate the relevance of social context in accentuating or minimizing the impact of individual- and household-level characteristics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Men's housework, women's housework, and second births in Australia (2010)
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Craig, Lyn & Peter Siminski (2010): Men's housework, women's housework, and second births in Australia. In: Social Politics, Jg. 17, H. 2, S. 235-266. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxq004
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"Is gender inequality in unpaid work within households implicated in falling fertility rates? This paper investigates whether the likelihood couples with one child will have more children is affected by: (i) the amount of household labor they each perform or (ii) the way they divide household labor between themselves. Drawing a sample of partnered couples with one child (n = 573) from the longitudinal Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in Australia survey, we conduct multivariate regression analysis and find the more housework that Australian women do, the less likely they are to have more children. Neither fathers' time allocation to housework, nor relative shares of housework, were found to have an effect on subsequent fertility. Thus, mothers' own domestic workloads negatively impacted upon fertility, but shares of housework did not." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How responsive is female labour supply to child care costs: new Australian estimates (2010)
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Gong, Xiaodong, Robert Breunig & Anthony King (2010): How responsive is female labour supply to child care costs. New Australian estimates. (IZA discussion paper 5119), Bonn, 59 S.
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"The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and international literature on labour supply and child care, and provide improved Australian estimates of labour supply elasticities and child care demand elasticities with respect to gross child care price. We find that the limited literature in Australia has suffered from measurement error problems stemming in large part from shortcomings with data on child care price and child care usage. We use detailed child care data from three recent waves of the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (covering the period 2005 to 2007) to address these problems. We extend the standard labour supply and child care model to allow for separate effects of different child care prices for children in different age ranges and we calculate regional child care prices based upon child-level information. The salient finding is that child care prices do have statistically significant effects on mothers' labour supply and child care demand. The new estimates are in line with international findings, and their robustness is supported by a validation exercise involving an alternative technique and an earlier time period." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Working or stay-at-home mum?: the influence of family benefits and religiosity (2010)
Jäger, Ulrike;Zitatform
Jäger, Ulrike (2010): Working or stay-at-home mum? The influence of family benefits and religiosity. (Ifo working paper 84), München, 39 S.
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"It is a well-established fact that mothers' labour force participation reacts differently to different types of family benefits. It is also already well-known that cultural and religious factors have an impact on their labour force participation. But does the labour force reaction to family benefits differ among more religious mothers? In this paper, I analyse how both factors - benefits and religiosity - interact when it comes to the decision concerning labour force participation. Firstly, I present a theoretical model which predicts that this difference exists. Secondly, I test this prediction in a sample of pooled cross-section data from 10 OECD countries using different measures to assess the extent of religiosity. There is evidence that religious mothers react less than non-religious mothers to increases in family benefits. I also find important differences among various religious affiliations. These results imply that trends in religiosity should be considered when designing labour market policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Australia: Casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model (2009)
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Campbell, Iain, Gillian Whithouse & Janeen Baxter (2009): Australia: Casual employment, part-time employment and the resilience of the male-breadwinner model. In: L. F. Vosko, M. MacDonald & I. Campbell (Hrsg.) (2009): Gender and the contours of precarious employment, S. 60-75.
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"This chapter introduces selected aspects of the Australian experience. The first section sketches out the main forms of employment and the trends in their growth since 1992. It focuses on the peculiar but widespread category of casual employment and the category of permanent part-time waged work. The second section picks up two dimensions of precariousness that appear particularly important in Australia -- lack of regulatory protection and working-time insecurity -- and examines how they manifest themselves within the main categories of employment. The third section looks at some of the forces that have shaped precariousness in employment in Australia. We argue that the changes affecting employment are building barriers to the transformation of the inherited male-breadwinner model." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Women and retirement pensions: a research review (2009)
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Jefferson, Therese (2009): Women and retirement pensions. A research review. In: Feminist economics, Jg. 15, H. 4, S. 115-145. DOI:10.1080/13545700903153963
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"The links between women's caring work and access to economic resources are particularly critical in the context of widespread public policy debates about retirement and pensions, many of which neglect care as a key issue for analysis. However, among feminist economists it is widely recognized that women's patterns of care provision have adverse implications for their access to economic resources in later life. The feminist economics literature examines many of the interactions between women's caring roles and their access to resources, particularly women's capacity to access economic resources through publicly mandated or regulated pension schemes. This article reviews research that places women's patterns of work and care at the center of analyses of retirement pension policy in an effort to provide a summary of research on gender and pensions policy and to contrast the extent to which differing institutional and policy frameworks accommodate women's caring roles." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Der zögernde Abschied vom Patriarchat: der Wandel von Geschlechterrollen im internationalen Vergleich (2009)
Lück, Detlev;Zitatform
Lück, Detlev (2009): Der zögernde Abschied vom Patriarchat. Der Wandel von Geschlechterrollen im internationalen Vergleich. Berlin: Edition Sigma, 360 S.
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"In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden große Schritte in Richtung Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter getan, etwa bei der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und Müttern. Doch in anderen Bereichen halten sich patriarchale Strukturen erstaunlich zäh, etwa bei der Frage, wer sich um Haushalt und Kinder kümmert. Unterschiede gibt es auch im internationalen Vergleich: Skandinavien hat sich früh und weit entwickelt, Süd-Europa spät und verhalten; in Ost-Europa sind Frauen gut in das Erwerbsleben integriert, aber sonst eher schlecht gestellt. Der Autor trägt in diesem Buch Daten und Fakten zum Wandel der Geschlechterrollen in verschiedenen Lebensbereichen für 40 Länder und über einen Zeitraum von 14 Jahren zusammen. Diese beträchtliche empirische Basis erlaubt es ihm auch, die ambivalente Entwicklung der Geschlechterrollen in ein neues theoretisches Licht zu rücken: Während Rational-Choice-Ansätze Wandel plausibel machen und durch den Doing-Gender-Ansatz Kontinuität begreiflich wird, setzt Lück auf differenzierte Deutungen durch die Verknüpfung verschiedener Theorieansätze. Er fragt, wie sich strukturelle und kulturelle Einflüsse auf der Mikro- und der Makro-Ebene für statistische Analysen operationalisieren lassen, um die Unterschiede zu erklären." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Improving the modelling of couples' labour supply (2008)
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Breunig, Robert, Deborah A. Cobb-Clark & Xiaodong Gong (2008): Improving the modelling of couples' labour supply. In: The Economic Record, Jg. 84, H. 267, S. 466-485. DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2008.00511.x
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"We study work hours of Australian couples using a structural labour-supply model. We introduce model improvements which allow error in wage estimation and unobserved influences on partners' non-market time to be correlated with one another and with own wage. This more realistic model produces wage elasticities - 0.26 (men) and 0.50 (women) - twice as large as those found without these innovations. Australian Government changes to the tax and transfer system between 2004 and 2006 are predicted to have little impact on participation and labour supply. Average weekly family income is predicted to increase by $65 per week." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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The backstop breadwinner: working women in the transition to parenthood (2008)
Reeves, Karen;Zitatform
Reeves, Karen (2008): The backstop breadwinner. Working women in the transition to parenthood. Brisbane, 91 S.
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"This thesis investigates the allocation of the breadwinner responsibility in dual-earner couples in the transition to parenthood. With sixty-three percent of Australian families now categorised as dual-income (ABS 2008 Cat. No. 6105.0), the rising workforce participation of mothers has dramatically diminished the dominance of the traditional male breadwinner family. Yet, the male breadwinner norm remains a pervasive social construct despite the emergence of a variety of breadwinning arrangements in Australian households. The continuing ideology of breadwinning as 'a special male responsibility' (Potuchek 1997:3) assumes that mothers in dual-earner families are secondary earners, merely providing a supplementary income (Hakim 2002). Existing literature neglects to examine the meaning which working mothers ascribe to their paid employment. To address this research 'gap', this study uses NVivo 8 to analyse original interview data from eighty cases of working mothers in dual-earner families to provide a comprehensive analysis of working mothers' attitudes to paid employment and their 'provider identity' (Hood 1986). How this individual-level provider identity influences breadwinning arrangements at a critical time in the life course of dual-earner couples - the transition to parenthood - is examined.
Two main findings from the process of data analysis are presented in this thesis. Firstly, existing assumptions of working mothers as secondary earners were countered by a strong worker identity and continued attachment to paid employment which at times dominated the maternal role. Secondly, the notion of a 'backstop breadwinner' was identified in the data to characterise the continuing attachment to a provider identity in the transition from 'worker' to 'mother'. This thesis argues that in the transition to parenthood, micro- and macro-level structural factors interact with working mothers' attitudes to paid employment and their provider identity to frame both 'choice' and 'constraint' in the allocation of the breadwinner role in dualearner couples. Within this context, a disjuncture between the provider identity of working mothers and the persistence of breadwinning as a gender boundary in the transition to parenthood is evident. This disjuncture between self-identification as a provider and couple-level allocation of the provider role has led to the emergence of a new breadwinning arrangement in dual-earner households - women as mothers and as essential earners and providers. As one interviewee explains, this is highlighted by the rise of the 'backstop breadwinner,' a working mother who has financial independence and provides essential and indispensable income." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en)) -
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Female breadwinner families: their existence, persistence and sources (2004)
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Drago, Robert, David Black & Mark Wooden (2004): Female breadwinner families. Their existence, persistence and sources. (IZA discussion paper 1308), Bonn, 32 S.
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"We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner - what we term female breadwinner households - and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and hypothesise, and confirm, that these two groups diverge on demographic, socio-economic status (SES), labour market and family commitment characteristics. Among the persistent group we further distinguish those couples where the dominance of a female earner is related to economic factors and those where it appears associated with a purposeful gender equity strategy. We again hypothesise and confirm that these household types significantly diverge, finding that men in the economic group exhibit low SES, poor labour market position, and low levels of commitment to family, while both the women and men in the equity type often achieve positive outcomes regarding gender equity and economic and family success." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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When she earns more than he does: A longitudinal study of dual-earner couples (2001)
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Brennan, Robert T., Rosalind Chait Barnett & Karen C. Gareis (2001): When she earns more than he does. A longitudinal study of dual-earner couples. In: Journal of Marriage and Family, Jg. 63, H. 1, S. 168-182. DOI:10.1111/j.1741-3737.2001.00168.x
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"In a random sample of 286 full-time-employed dual-earner couples, we tested 3 competing hypotheses: when wives earn more than their husbands, (a) each partner's marital-role quality (MRQ) decreases; (b) his MRQ increases, whereas effects on her MRQ are mixed; and (c) relationships vary with gender-role beliefs (i.e., gender-role ideology and subjective rewards of salary). We conceptualized salary as a couple-level predictor with 4 components, 2 time varying and 2 time invariant, and estimated the relationship between 2 time-varying components and MRQ. Women's MRQ was not significantly related to change in relative earnings. However, among men, the relationship varied by salary rewards." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))