TY - JOUR
T1 - Inequality in the family
T2 - The institutional aspects of women's earning contribution
AU - Stier, Haya
AU - Mandel, Hadas
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Noah Lewin-Epstein for his helpful comments and Yasmin Alkalay of her valuable assistance in data analysis. Financial support was provided by the Institute for Social Research, Tel Aviv University.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - This paper examines the effect of employment-supportive policies and arrangements on women's economic contribution to their family. Using samples of working-age couples in 21 countries we employ multilevel modeling to separate the effects of household and country-level variables on earnings. We distinguish two types of relevant contextual factors: those that support women's employment while preserving their domestic roles and those that potentially reduce intra-family economic inequalities by allowing women to allocate more of their time to paid employment. The findings suggest that all employment-supportive policies and arrangements increase women's relative contribution to the household income through their effect on female labor force participation. Among dual-earner families, however, higher rates of childcare facilities increase women's contribution, while long maternity leave and part-time employment decrease it. These tendencies are more pronounced among mothers.
AB - This paper examines the effect of employment-supportive policies and arrangements on women's economic contribution to their family. Using samples of working-age couples in 21 countries we employ multilevel modeling to separate the effects of household and country-level variables on earnings. We distinguish two types of relevant contextual factors: those that support women's employment while preserving their domestic roles and those that potentially reduce intra-family economic inequalities by allowing women to allocate more of their time to paid employment. The findings suggest that all employment-supportive policies and arrangements increase women's relative contribution to the household income through their effect on female labor force participation. Among dual-earner families, however, higher rates of childcare facilities increase women's contribution, while long maternity leave and part-time employment decrease it. These tendencies are more pronounced among mothers.
KW - Employment decisions
KW - Employment-supportive policies
KW - Gender inequality
KW - Multilevel modelling
KW - Women's earning contribution
KW - Work-family interplay
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70249104249&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.01.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2009.01.008
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AN - SCOPUS:70249104249
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 38
SP - 594
EP - 608
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
IS - 3
ER -
