Does the Husband Matter? Married Women and Employment in Italy
Does the Husband Matter? Married Women and Employment in Italy
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老公重要吗？
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1999
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Fabrizio Bernardi
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作者：
Fabrizio Bernardi
在本文中，我分析了妻子在劳动力市场（LM）的参与和结果如何受到丈夫平行职业的影响。根据新家庭经济学（New Home Economics）的说法，丈夫和妻子都会共同决定他们在有偿工作中的参与度和努力程度，评估他们在有偿和无偿家务工作中的比较优势。这一理论表明，丈夫的职业对妻子在LM中的参与和结果有负向影响。将丈夫的职业资源解释为妻子可以支配的社会资本，可以得出不同的结论。嫁给一个在LM中职位较高的丈夫可能会对妻子的就业产生积极的影响，包括可支配信息、人力资本和文化资本的直接传递以及个人在就业匹配过程中的影响。我用动态分析的方法来评估从经济学和社会学理论中得出的假设的合理性。我使用1996年收集的工作经历作为意大利已婚妇女的全国代表性样本。结果表明，丈夫的资源对妻子参与管理有负向影响，而对妻子的职业成就有正向影响。这些结果表明，可以将经济学和社会学理论结合起来，以解释LM中决定已婚妇女职业生涯的机制的不同方面
In this paper I analyse how a wife's participation and outcomes in the labour market (LM) are influenced by her husband's parallel career. According to New Home Economics, both husband and wife join in making decisions about their participation and effort in paid work, evaluating the comparative advantage they have in paid and unpaid domestic work. This theory implies that a husband's career has a negative effect on his wife's participation and outcomes in the LM. Different conclusions can be drawn by interpreting the husband's occupational resources as social capital at his wife's disposal. Being married to a husband who has a high position in the LM might have positive results for the wife's employment, in terms of disposable information, direct transmission of human and cultural capital, and personal influence in the job-matching process. I assess the plausibility of the hypotheses drawn from the economic and sociological theories by means of dynamic analysis. I use work histories collected in 1996 for a national representative sample of Italian married women. The results show that the husband's resources have a negative effect on the wife's participation in the LM, while they have a positive effect on her occupational attainment. These results suggest that the economic and sociological theories can be integrated in order to account for different aspects of the mechanism determining married women's careers in the LM