The Influence of Men’s Income and Employment on Marriage and Cohabitation
Testing Oppenheimer’s Theory in Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11295047 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Kalmijn (0000-0001-5217-1897, Tilburg University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 269-293 |
| Publication date | 2011-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Population / Revue européenne de Démographie (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0168-6577 • E-ISSN: 1572-9885 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10680-011-9238-x |
| PMID | 21957323 |
| PMCID | PMC3163818 |
| OpenAlex | W1625083992 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 100 |
| References cited | 56 |
This article discusses Oppenheimer's theory on marriage timing, reviews the way this theory was received in European demography and family sociology, and develops a new test of the theory using annual panel data from 13 European countries for the period 1994-2001. Several indicators of men's economic status are used, including school enrollment, employment, type of labor contract, work experience, income, and education. Effects of these indicators are estimated for the transition to marriage and cohabitation, as well as for the transition from cohabitation to marriage. Country differences in these effects are examined as well. The evidence provides strong support for the male breadwinner hypothesis on the one hand, and for Oppenheimer's career uncertainty hypothesis on the other. However, the relevance of these hypotheses also depends on the national context, and especially on the way gender roles are divided in a society
Cohabitation · Context (archaeology · Demographic economics · Econometrics · Economics · Geography · Panel analysis · Panel data · Political science · Relevance (law · Sociology · Work (physics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Law
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