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Title: Is It All About Money? Work Characteristics and Women’s and Men’s Marriage Formation in Early Adulthood
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Kuo, Janet Chen-Lan Raley, R. Kelly |
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Is It All About Money? Work Characteristics and Women’s and Men’s Marriage Formation in Early Adulthood Journal of Family Issues 37,8 (June 2016): 1046-1073. Also: http://jfi.sagepub.com/content/37/8/1046.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Sage Publications Keyword(s): Control; Earnings; Family Formation; Marital Status; Marriage; Occupational Information Network (O*NET) Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 97, this article investigates how work characteristics (earnings and autonomy) shape young adults' transition to first marriage separately for men and women. The results suggest that earnings are positively associated with marriage and that this association is as strong for women as men in their mid to late 20s. Additionally, occupational autonomy—having the control over one's own work structure—facilitates entry into first marriage for women in their mid to late 20s but, for men, occupational autonomy is not associated with marriage at these ages. These results suggest that even as women's earnings are increasingly important for marriage, other aspects of work are also important for stable family formation. |
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Kuo, Janet Chen-Lan and R. Kelly Raley. "Is It All About Money? Work Characteristics and Women’s and Men’s Marriage Formation in Early Adulthood." Journal of Family Issues 37,8 (June 2016): 1046-1073.
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