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Direct linkTreas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe – Social Forces, 2011
A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Spouses, Marital Status, Homemakers
Smits, Jeroen; Park, Hyunjoon – Social Forces, 2009
We study trends in educational homogamy at six boundaries in the educational structure of 10 East-Asian societies and explain its variation using explanatory variables at the country, cohort and boundary level. Educational homogamy was higher at the higher boundaries in the educational structure. Since the 1950s it decreased at all but the lowest…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Enrollment, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Bolzendahl, Catherine; Brooks, Clem – Social Forces, 2007
One of the sharpest criticisms of welfare state research is insufficient attention to factors relating to gender relations and inequalities. Recent scholarship has begun to address welfare state effects on gender-related outcomes, but the evaluation of theories of welfare development with respect to gender factors is somewhat less developed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Females, Political Power, Labor Force
Kogan, Irena – Social Forces, 2006
The questions asked in the paper are whether and to what extent the employment situation among recent third-country immigrants differs across European Union countries and how it is related to these countries' labor market characteristics. The European Labor Force Survey data for the 1990s are used to disentangle the roles that the individual…
Descriptors: Individual Characteristics, Labor Market, Foreign Countries, Labor Force
Lee, Cheol-Sung – Social Forces, 2005
This article, using unbalanced panel data on 16 affluent OECD countries, tests the effects of diverse aspects of globalization and deindustrialization on unionization trends. In contrast to the recent studies focusing on the conditional role of labor market institutions, this study underlines the role of two structural factors in transforming…
Descriptors: Globalization, Foreign Countries, Occupational Mobility, Unions
Tubergen, Frank van – Social Forces, 2005
This study examines the role of immigrants' country of origin, country of destination and combinations thereof (settings or communities) in the likelihood of immigrants being self-employed. I pooled census data from three classic immigrant countries (Australia, Canada and the United States) and labor-force surveys from 14 countries in the European…
Descriptors: Self Employment, Immigrants, Role, Foreign Countries
