The Public Sector, Family Structure, and Labor Market Behavior: Jewish Mothers in Israel

Recent research has suggested that the characteristics of paid work affect trade-offs between women's activities in the family and employment spheres. One argument suggests that public sector employment, more so than private sector employment, provides conditions that are amenable to the combin...

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Published in:Work and occupations 2007-05, Vol.34 (2), p.174-204
Main Authors: Okun, Barbara S., Oliver, Amalya L., Khait-Marelly, Orna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Behavior
Childbearing
Childbirth
Childbirth & labor
Employment
Employment opportunities
Family Policy
Family structure
Family Work Relationship
Gender roles
Israel
Job characteristics
Job opportunities
Labor
Labor market
Labor Market Segmentation
Markets
Occupation
Private sector
Public Sector
Sociology
Sociology of work
Sociology of work and sociology of organizations
Tradeoffs
Welfare State
Women
Working Mothers
Working population. Employment. Women's work
Working women
Writers
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Summary:Recent research has suggested that the characteristics of paid work affect trade-offs between women's activities in the family and employment spheres. One argument suggests that public sector employment, more so than private sector employment, provides conditions that are amenable to the combination of paid work and family. In this article, the authors exploit panel-type data to compare the labor market behavior of Jewish Israeli women in the years following childbirth and focus on differential labor market activity among women with employment histories in the public and private sectors. Their findings point to significant interaction effects between previous sector of employment and childbearing behavior and suggest that the welfare state, through the provision of “family friendly” employment opportunities, plays a role in encouraging women's paid labor in the years following childbirth.
ISSN:0730-8884
1552-8464
DOI:10.1177/0730888406298711