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Careers of couples in contemporary societies : from male breadwinner to dual-earner families / edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dual-career families--Cross-cultural studies.
- Dual-career families.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 396 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Summary:
- The first international comparative study of career changes among couples in modern society, this important book spans the globe, addressing career issues in Germany, the Netherlands, the Flemish part of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Greta Britain, the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, and China. Using longitudinal data, it explores what has and has not changed for couples in various countries because of women's greater involvement in paid employment.
- Contents:
- A cross national comparative approach to couples' careers / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič
- Theoretical perspectives on couples' careers / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič
- Spouses' employment careers in (West) Germany / Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sonja Drobnič, and Götz Rohwer
- Couples' labour-market participation in the Netherlands / John Hendrickx, Wim Bernasco, and Paul M. DeGraaf
- Couples' careers in Flanders / Martine Corijn
- The employment behaviour of married women in Italy / Fabrizio Bernardi
- Spouses' employment careers in Spain / María José González-López
- Married women's employment patterns in Britain / Andrew McCulloch and Shirley Dex
- Coupled careers: pathways through work and marriage in the United States / Shin-Kap Han and Phyllis Moen
- Earnings as a force of attraction and specialization in Sweden / Ursula Henz and Marianne Sundström
- Work careers of married women in Denmark / Søren Leth-Sørensen and Götz Rohwer
- Employment patters of married women in Poland / Sonja Drobnič and Ewa Fratczak
- Employment patterns in Hungarian couples / Péter Róbert, Erzsébet Bukodi, and Ruud Luijkx
- Job-shift patterns of husbands and wives in urban China / Xueguang Zhou and Phyllis Moen
- Careers of couples and trends in inequality / Sonja Drobnič and Hans-Peter Blossfeld.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 019924491X
- OCLC:
- 45909023
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