女性の学歴と再就職--結婚・出産退職後の労働市場再参入過程のハザード分析

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The most prevalent coping strategy for the work-and-family conflict in Japanese families is for women to leave the labor market during the parenting period and come back later, when the children are grown. This study investigates the hazard rates of returning to the labor market for those who once left their jobs due to either marriage or childbirth. The data come from theSchool District Survey conducted in Central Japan in 1995 that surveyed 819 mothers of fourth and fifth graders. The sub-samples used for the analyses consist of 556 currently married women between the ages of 30 and 49 who left their jobs for one of the above reasons.<BR>The results indicate that the <I>negative</I> impact of education on the rate of coming back to the labor force is due to the fact that women with higher education (especially those with four-year college diplomas) tend to marry husbands with higher incomes. The husbands' income that suppresses the probability of his wife's returning to the labor market was found to be particularly strong among four-year college graduates, suggesting a higher demand by them for time spent in non-pecuniary activities and a mismatch in the labor market.
日本家族社会学会の論文