Determinants of employment of women with infants

NISHIMURA Junko
(Meisei University)

A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century (Tohoku University Press) (2013-03-28)

Title: Determinants of employment of women with infants
Author: NISHIMURA Junko (西村純子)
Page: 235–254
Short URL: http://tsigeto.info/qfam/book/9

Book Title: A Quantitative Picture of Contemporary Japanese Families: Tradition and Modernity in the 21st Century
Editor: TANAKA Sigeto
Publisher: Tohoku University Press
Date: 2013-03
Language: English
ISBN: 978-4-86163-226-6
NCID: BB12087266
Price: 4,200 yen
Total Pages: xi+375

Abstract

Chapter 9. Determinants of employment of women with infants

1. Preceding studies on the determinants of women’s employment and the objective of our study

2. Methods

2.1. Data and the subject of the analysis
2.2. Variables
2.3. Methods of analysis

3. Results

3.1. Descriptive statistics
3.2. Multinomial logit analysis

4. Discussion

5. Conclusion

Keywords

married women’s employment
regular employment
non-regular employment
infant
effect of educational attainment
effect of co-residence with parents
multinomial logit analysis

Tables

Table 1. Responses related to the distance of the residence from the wife’s and husband’s mothers and the categories used.
Table 2. The mean and standard deviation of each of the quantitative variables (the wife’s age, the husband’s income, the frequency of the husband’s involvement in household chores and childrearing)
Table 2. Descriptive statistics
Table 3. Multinomial logit analysis of wife’s employment status (NFRJ98)
Table 4. Multinomial logit analysis of wife’s employment status (NFRJ03)
Table 5. Multinomial logit analysis of wife’s employment status (NFRJ08)

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Note

The data for this secondary analysis, National Family Research of Japan 1998 {NFRJ98}, 2003 {NFRJ03}, and 2008 {NFRJ08} by the NFRJ Committee, Japan Society of Family Sociology, was provided by the Social Science Japan Data Archive, Center for Social Research and Data Archives, Institute of Social Science, The University of Tokyo. An earlier version of this chapter was published as a Japanese paper in the NFRJ08 Second Report (田中重人・永井暁子編, 2011, 『家族と仕事』日本家族社会学会全国家族調査委員会, 1–16 {nfrj:nfrj08_201101_1}).

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