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Author: Hakim, Catherine
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Labour Mobility and Employment Stability: Rhetoric and Reality on the Sex Differential in Labour-Market Behaviour European Sociological Review 12,1 (May 1996): 1-31. Also: http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/12/1/1.abstract Cohort(s): Mature Women, NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Oxford University Press Keyword(s): Employment, Part-Time; Gender Differences; Housework/Housewives; Job Tenure; Labor Force Participation; Labor Market Surveys; Labor Turnover; Mobility; Mobility, Labor Market; Mobility, Occupational; Sexual Division of Labor; Unions; Work Histories Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. National survey data for GB & other industrial societies are drawn on to evaluate claims that sex differentials in labor mobility & employment stability have disappeared with rising female (F) labor-force participation. Results for GB show a continuing sex differential of 50% in the standard measures of labor turnover & job tenure; these are typical of the European Community & other industrial societies. Further, such sex differentials are dramatically increased when the focus changes to movement in & out of the labor force instead of attachment to a particular employer: Fs are 2-4 times more likely than men to enter & exit the workforce in a given period. Work histories display even more fundamental sex differences, & show that discontinuous employment has been replacing continuous employment & the homemaker career among Fs. The methodological implications for the analyses of cross-sectional & longitudinal data, & the substantive & theoretical implications for understanding F employment, are addressed. It is concluded that qualitative divisions within the F workforce can no longer be ignored, as they impact on occupational grade, earnings, & life chances, & can distort cross-national comparisons. 15 Tables, 2 Figures, 128 References. Adapted from the source document. (Copyright 1996, Sociological Abstracts, Inc., all rights reserved.) |
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Hakim, Catherine. "Labour Mobility and Employment Stability: Rhetoric and Reality on the Sex Differential in Labour-Market Behaviour." European Sociological Review 12,1 (May 1996): 1-31.
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Lifestyle Preferences versus Patriarchal Values: Causal and Non-Causal Attitudes Advances in Life Course Research 8 (2003): 69-91. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040260803080043 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): Cross-national Analysis; Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID); Sex Roles; Women There is solid evidence, from longitudinal studies such as the NLS and PSID, of the significant long-term impact of values and life goals on occupational attainment and earnings. So far these findings have not been incorporated into sociological and economic theory. Preference theory does this, identifying the social and economic context in which values and attitudes can become important predictors of women's (and men's) behavior. A theoretical and methodological distinction between causal and noncausal attitudes and values is made, illustrated by data on lifestyle preferences and patriarchal values from comparative surveys in GB and Spain. The results show that lifestyle preferences have a major impact on women's choices between family work and employment, whereas patriarchal values are only tenuously linked to behavior. 6 Tables, 44 References. Adapted from the source document |
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Hakim, Catherine. "Lifestyle Preferences versus Patriarchal Values: Causal and Non-Causal Attitudes." Advances in Life Course Research 8 (2003): 69-91.
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