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Title: Bad Jobs for Marriage: Job Quality and the Transition to First Marriage
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Lim, So-Jung |
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Bad Jobs for Marriage: Job Quality and the Transition to First Marriage Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): Benefits, Insurance; Gender Differences; Job Characteristics; Marital History/Transitions; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; Pensions; Well-Being Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) from 1979 to 2008, this paper examines the extent to which the quality of jobs that individuals have are associated with the transition to first marriage. Specifically, I evaluate the role of various indicators of job quality on marriage entry including health insurance coverage and the provision of pension benefits, nonstandard hours, and part-time work. Results from the discrete-time hazard models show that job quality matters for both men and women's marriage formation, net of education and income. For men, all indicators of bad jobs decrease the chance of marriage by 11 to 20 percent. Compared to men, only two of four indicators of job quality (i.e., pension benefits and part-time work) are related to women's entry into first marriage, suggesting gender difference in the relationship between job quality and marriage. This study represents one of the first empirical tests of the hypothesis that differences in job quality in the context of labor market uncertainty and polarization may be a key factor for understanding marriage behaviors. Beyond theory, this study can also inform policy debates surrounding the relationship between marriage and well-being and increasing inequality in the U.S. |
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Lim, So-Jung. "Bad Jobs for Marriage: Job Quality and the Transition to First Marriage." Presented: Chicago IL, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, August 2015. |