Careers of couples in contemporary societies
Subtitle: from male breadwinner to dual-earner families
By: edited by Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič
Contributors: Blossfeld, Hans-Peter; Drobnic, Sonja
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Dual-career families -- Cross-cultural studies
Genres: Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: A cross national comparative approach to couples' careers / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič; title: Theoretical perspectives on couples' careers / Hans-Peter Blossfeld and Sonja Drobnič; title: Spouses' employment careers in (West) Germany / Hans-Peter Blossfeld, Sonja Drobnič, and Götz Rohwer; title: Couples' labour-market participation in the Netherlands / John Hendrickx, Wim Bernasco, and Paul M. DeGraaf; title: Couples' careers in Flanders / Martine Corijn; title: The employment behaviour of married women in Italy / Fabrizio Bernardi; title: Spouses' employment careers in Spain / María José González-López; title: Married women's employment patterns in Britain / Andrew McCulloch and Shirley Dex; title: Coupled careers: pathways through work and marriage in the United States / Shin-Kap Han and Phyllis Moen; title: Earnings as a force of attraction and specialization in Sweden / Ursula Henz and Marianne Sundström; title: Work careers of married women in Denmark / Søren Leth-Sørensen and Götz Rohwer; title: Employment patters of married women in Poland / Sonja Drobnič and Ewa Fratczak; title: Employment patterns in Hungarian couples / Péter Róbert, Erzsébet Bukodi, and Ruud Luijkx; title: Job-shift patterns of husbands and wives in urban China / Xueguang Zhou and Phyllis Moen; title: Careers of couples and trends in inequality / Sonja Drobnič and Hans-Peter Blossfeld