The Life-Cycle Squeeze
The Interaction of men’s Occupational and Family Life Cycles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10969744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer (Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 227-245 |
| Publication date | 1974-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Demography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2060561 |
| PMID | 21274811 |
| OpenAlex | W2077237121 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 68 |
| References cited | 11 |
This paper is concerned with analyzing one structural source of pressure for wives to contribute to family income. This is the “life-cycle squeeze”—the situation where a man’s resources are inadequate to meet the needs engendered by the number and ages of his children. Studies of how economic needs vary by family life-cycle stage indicate that one high point of need occurs when men are in their forties and early fifties. However, 1960 Census data on earnings patterns by age indicate that in only relatively high-level professional, managerial and sales occupations do average earnings peak at the same time family income needs are peaking. For most blue-collar and many medium- and low-level white collar occupations, median earnings are highest for younger men, and men at an age when family costs are at their maximum are earning somewhat less, on the average. As a consequence, the families of such men run the risk of a deterioration in their level of living unless an additional income is brought into the household
Blue collar · Census · Collar · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Family income · Family life · Labour economics · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Demography · Finance · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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Jobs and classes
A Modernized Family Life Cycle
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Husbands' Occupational Attributes as Constraints on Wives' Employment
The changing status of American women
Hardship and Depression
The Two-Part Gender Revolution, Women's Second Shift and Changing Cohort Fertility
Media Time Squeezing
Employment Sector Sex Differential in Wage Structures for 1960 and 1970
Employed Parents
The Influence of the Family on Vocational Development
Work Identity and Marital Adjustment in Blue-Collar Men
Medical Care Use and Expenditures for Children across Stages of the Family Life Cycle
The Family Life Cycle and Spouses' Time in Housework
Alternative Approaches to the Family Life Cycle in the Analysis of Housing Consumption
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households
Job Involvement Through the Life Course
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Informal transfers, men, women and children
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Socio-cultural variations in the applicability of the economic model of fertility
Recent Changes in Male Income
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Birth Timing and the Division of Labor in Dual-Earner Families
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Developing Family Indicators
Gender, Social Reproduction, and Women's Self-Organization
Moonlighting Husbands
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Family History and the Life Course
Timetables and Implicit Theory
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| Unique citing works | 68 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 1975 - 2026 (52) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |