Increased Women's Labour Force Participation in Europe: Progress in the Work-Life Balance or Polarization of Behaviours?
Increased Women's Labour Force Participation in Europe: Progress in the Work-Life Balance or Polarization of Behaviours?
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欧洲女性劳动力参与率的提高：工作与生活平衡的进步还是行为的两极分化？
DOI：
10.3917/pope.902.0235
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发表时间：
2009
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Krystyna Horko
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作者：
O. Thévenon;Krystyna Horko
本文利用欧洲劳动力调查（EU-LFS）的数据分析了1992年至2005年期间妇女劳动力市场状况的趋势。对这些情况进行建模，以捕捉孩子的存在、最小孩子的年龄、母亲第一次生育的年龄和配偶的存在对妇女就业和工作时间的影响，并观察它们如何随时间变化。在一些国家观察到的趋势对1990年代标准类型学提出的地理分类提出了挑战。女性劳动力参与率的上升部分是由于家庭规模的减少，但对于特定的家庭规模，妇女的就业也有所增加。在一些国家，这种增长似乎与只有在孩子的到来能够与就业相协调的情况下才生孩子的决定有关。反映这种情况的指标在德国、西班牙、荷兰和葡萄牙都有，这些国家对协调工作和家庭生活的支持有限。然而，比利时、法国和联合王国的家庭人数减少较少，因为这些国家的就业和儿童之间的关系比较有利。
This paper analyses trends in women's labour market situations between 1992 and 2005 using data from the European Labour Force Surveys (EU-LFS). These situations are modelled to capture the effects of the presence of a child or children, the age of the youngest child, the mother's age at first birth and the presence of a spouse on women's employment and working hours, and to see how they change over time. The trends observed in some countries challenge the geographical breakdown proposed by the standard typologies of the 1990s.The rise in female labour force participation rates is partly due to the reduction in family size, but women's employment has also increased for a given household size. In some countries, this rise seems to be associated with a decision to have children only if their arrival can be reconciled with employment. Indicators reflecting this situation are found in Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal, where support for reconciling work and family life is limited. A lesser reduction in family size is observed in Belgium, France and the United Kingdom, however, where the context for reconciling employment and children is more favourable.