女人的工作特点和生育期望
Jennifer Yarger1, Sarah R Brauner-Otto2
1University of California, San Francisco.
Population research and policy review
|October 7, 2024
概括
工作特征对母亲和非母亲的生育期望有不同的影响. 兼职工作增加了对母亲的期望,但降低了对无子女的期望,这表明了不同的潜在机制.
科学领域:
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 人口统计学 人口统计学
- 劳动经济学 劳动经济学
背景情况:
- 就业是生育率的一个关键社会决定因素.
- 对于特定的工作特征如何影响生育期望的理解有限.
研究的目的:
- 分析工作特征 (兼职,自雇,管理/专业角色) 与女性生育期望之间的关联.
- 探索这些关联如何根据平价 (儿童数量) 变化.
主要方法:
- 利用了来自1979年全国青年纵向调查 (NLSY) 的25年纵向数据.
- 分析了4415名18-45岁妇女的数据,使用后勤回归模型.
- 检查了工作特征和生育期望之间的关联,按平价分层.
主要成果:
- 工作特征在很大程度上预测了生育期望,其影响因平价而异.
- 兼职工作与一个孩子的妇女预期更多孩子的概率高出2%.
- 在没有孩子的妇女中,兼职工作与预期更多孩子的可能性降低了2%.
- 在自雇和管理/专业职业中观察到类似的依赖于平价的对比.
- 调查结果在所有种族和族群中保持一致.
结论:
- 不同的机制将工作特征与母亲与非母亲的生育计划联系起来.
- 角色不兼容和工作与家庭之间的冲突似乎对母亲的生育期望有更大的影响.
- 财务压力可能是非母亲生育期望的更重要因素.
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