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Author: Lim, Sojung
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Job Quality and the Risk of Divorce: The Role of Wages, Health Insurance, and Pension Benefits Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Benefits, Fringe; Divorce; Gender Differences; Insurance, Health; Job Characteristics; Marital Instability; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Occupational Status; Pensions; Wages Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, this study examines the extent to which one's job quality is associated with the risk of divorce with a focus on gender differences. Results from discrete-time hazard models show that having a "bad job," i.e., a job with low wages and no access to fringe benefits, is associated with marital instability for men but not for women. In addition, working in a job without health insurance is associated with higher risk of divorce among men, but it tends to stabilize marriage among women. However, pension benefits are not related to the hazard of divorce. These results suggest that job quality has a differential impact on divorce by gender and that securing a good job is expected of men more than of women. They also imply that employment quality may become an important factor for marital stability in the context of job polarization. |
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Lim, Sojung. "Job Quality and the Risk of Divorce: The Role of Wages, Health Insurance, and Pension Benefits." Presented: Denver CO, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2018. |
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Mothers' Nonstandard Employment, Family Structure, and Children's Health Insurance Coverage Journal of Family and Economic Issues 40,2 (June 2019): 148-164. Also: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10834-018-9596-1 Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: Springer Keyword(s): Children, Health Care; Family Structure; Insurance, Health; Maternal Employment; Work, Atypical Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from two longitudinal studies on mothers and children (NLSY79 and NLSY79 Children), this study first examined the relationship between mothers' nonstandard employment and children’s health insurance coverage while adjusting for various compositional characteristics of mothers, children, and families. This study also evaluated whether this relationship differed across family structures. Results from multinomial logistic regression models showed that mothers' nonstandard work was associated with a higher likelihood of children being uninsured or relying on public programs. In addition, in single-mother families, children's uninsurance rate was highest if the mother held a nonstandard job, even compared to children of non-employed mothers. These study findings contribute to the literature on access to health insurance for children in the United States. |
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Bibliography Citation
Lim, Sojung. "Mothers' Nonstandard Employment, Family Structure, and Children's Health Insurance Coverage." Journal of Family and Economic Issues 40,2 (June 2019): 148-164.
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