Fragile Employment, Liquid Love: Employment Instability and Divorce in Israel

Kaplan, Amit; Herbst-Debby, Anat

doi:10.1007/s11113-017-9444-2

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“…These results indicate that there are still significant asymmetries in the response to job loss depending on the gender of the directly affected partner. This is consistent with persistent gender norms, such as the male-breadwinner model, and previous results in the literature (Weiss and Robert 1997;Eliason 2012;Raz-Yurovich 2012;Bertrand et al 2015;Kaplan and Herbst-Debby 2018). However, it should be acknowledged that some studies do not find gender differences (Charles and Stephens 2004).…”

Section: Job Loss Of Womensupporting

confidence: 91%

“…In their event study design, the effect persists even after eight years. Using administrative Israeli data, Raz-Yurovich (2012) and Kaplan and Herbst-Debby (2018) focus on employment stability, proxied by the months of employment within a year/since marriage, rather than job loss. Both papers find that a decrease in a husband's employment stability is associated with an increased risk of divorce.…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

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Unlucky at work, unlucky in love: job loss and marital stability

Keldenich

Luecke

2020

Rev Econ Household

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This paper analyses the relationship between a husband’s job loss and marital stability, focusing on involuntary employment terminations due to plant closures or dismissals. Using discrete survival analysis techniques on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we find plant closures and dismissals to be associated with a 54 and 74% higher risk of marital dissolution respectively, though the strength of association varies significantly by how long ago the change in employment status occurred. We extend the previous literature by considering heterogeneity in the relationship depending on whether new employment was found. Our analysis shows that the dissolution risk remains elevated even in couples where the husband has taken up a new position. Surprisingly, the relative risk of dissolution following the first period in a new job after a job loss is about the same as the relative risk of dissolution following the first period without employment. The relationship between finding a new job and marital dissolution appears to be mediated by changes in working hours as well as wages. In two extensions, we also consider the role of the wife’s employment status in moderating the relationship and show that a wife’s job loss is not associated with a similar increase in the probability of divorce as a husband’s.

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Section: Job Loss Of Womensupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Theoretical Background and Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unlucky at work, unlucky in love: job loss and marital stability

Keldenich

Luecke

2020

Rev Econ Household

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“…Prolonged exposure to unstable job positions has been shown to operate as a chronic stressor (Glavin, 2015), and, in some circumstances, its effects are not necessarily immediately perceived. Nonetheless, disadvantages related to unstable employment increase in line with its persistence (Kaplan & Herbst-Debby, 2018). Following this idea, certain recent studies on the relation between employment instability and fertility (e.g., Busetta et al, 2019;Ciganda, 2015;Özcan et al, 2010;Pailhé & Solaz, 2012) have suggested that family decisions are likely influenced not only by one's present circumstances, but by the information garnered from previous experiences and future prospects.…”

Section: Instability Of Employment Careers: Status or Persistence?mentioning

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The Gendered Relationship Between (Old and New Forms of) Employment Instability and Union Dissolution

Bastianelli

Vignoli

2021

Popul Res Policy Rev

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The present study contributes to a more comprehensive understanding of the relation between employment instability and union dissolution. To address the oversights of previous research, we disentangle the effect of employment instability on union dissolution by: (i) considering not only the effect of joblessness, but also the type of employment contract; (ii) evaluating both status and the accumulation of instability over the life course; and (iii) detecting gender differences. We focus on Italy, applying event-history techniques to the most recent Italian Multipurpose Survey “Families, social subjects and life cycle” of 2016, observing cohorts from 1950 to 1986. Our results suggest that the effect of employment instability on union dissolution is gender-specific: joblessness and limited-time employment are facilitators for men’s dissolution, while, for women, joblessness is an inhibitor for dissolution, and time-limited and permanent employment do not substantially differ. We also highlight the crucial role of the persistence of instability in unpacking the association between employment instability and union dissolution. This paper advances—for the first time for Italy, at least—that men’s time-limited employment arrangements negatively affect a couple’s stability.

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“…This is justified by the idea that job instability not only influences work performance (Probst et al, 2017) and attachment to the labour market, but equally so the private and social spheres of an individual. In addition to affecting personality traits in the long term (Wu et al, 2020), recent analyses show that unstable employment favours divorce (Kaplan and Herbst-Debby, 2018), antiegalitarian attitudes in society (Selenko and De Witte, 2021), as well as poor physical and mental health (Minnotte and Yucel, 2018). On this subject, Ellorenco et al (2019) recently demonstrated how wage distribution, and particularly, wage justice-often not accounted for in self-employment-directly affects life capabilities measured as life satisfaction and physical wellbeing.…”

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How does institutional context shape work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers? A contextualised application of the capability approach to Belgium, France and the Netherlands

Focacci

Pichault

2023

IJSSP

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PurposeAccording to Sen's theoretical framework of capability (1985), individuals reach their full potential once they have the freedom, intended as the set of functionings at their disposal, to do so. However, many critiques have been developed against the lack of embeddedness of the capability approach in social and political relations and structures. In this article, the authors investigate the influence of three institutional contexts (Belgium, the Netherlands and France) on the respective work-related functionings of self-employed and regular workers, with a focus on human capital investment and institutional support offered to them.Design/methodology/approachData from the European Working Conditions Survey (EWCS) are used to highlight similarities and differences in building work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers. A regression analysis is provided at the country level.FindingsIn the three labour markets, the authors find that the building of work-related functionings is more successful for regular employees, especially as regards institutional support. Self-employed workers, on the other hand, need to rely on their individual capability as regards employment protection and human capital investment. However, the authors find interesting differences between the three institutional contexts. In both Belgium and France, self-employed workers are subject to higher instability in terms of changes in salary and hours worked, whereas atypical work is better positioned in the Dutch labour market. The Netherlands is also characterised by a less significant gap between regular and self-employed workers with respect to participation in training.Originality/valueIn this article, the authors contextualise Sen's (1985) theoretical framework by taking into account the institutional differences of labour markets. In particular, the authors provide a novel application of his capability approach to regular and self-employed workers in an economically relevant European area.

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Fragile Employment, Liquid Love: Employment Instability and Divorce in Israel

Cited by 6 publications

References 62 publications

Unlucky at work, unlucky in love: job loss and marital stability

Unlucky at work, unlucky in love: job loss and marital stability

The Gendered Relationship Between (Old and New Forms of) Employment Instability and Union Dissolution

How does institutional context shape work-related functionings for regular and self-employed workers? A contextualised application of the capability approach to Belgium, France and the Netherlands

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