Self-employment and parenthood. Exploring the impact of partners, children and gender.

Autor/inn/en	Aidis, Ruta; Wetzels, Cecile
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Self-employment and parenthood. Exploring the impact of partners, children and gender. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Berufliche Selbstständigkeit und Elternschaft. Eine Untersuchung der Auswirkungen von Partner, Kindern und Geschlecht.
Quelle	Bonn: Forschungsinst. zur Zukunft der Arbeit (2007), 28 S.; 137 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 2813
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Familie; Mutter; Vater; Eltern; Kind; Determinante; Humankapital; Unternehmensgründung; Berufliche Selbstständigkeit; Berufswahl; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; Geschlechtsspezifik; Ehepartner; Italien; Niederlande; Spanien
Abstract	"This paper explores the relationship between self-employment, partner's employment, the household and children on a mother's and father's probability to choose self-employment. Few studies are available on this topic and their analysis is mainly limited to the female role in the North American context. In this study, we examine the influence of personal characteristics, household and labor market characteristics for both mothers and fathers in a family context and their probability to be self-employed as compared to parents who have chosen formal, gainful employment. We focus on the data from the European context comparing results from Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. Using these large and comparable data sets, our logit model estimates show that mothers who choose self-employment do not work fewer working hours than those in gainful employment. Similar results were found for fathers in Spain and Italy. Perhaps the most striking result is the very strong significance of the partner's self-employed status on the choice for self-employment for both mothers and fathers in all three countries. Other effects such as human capital, household income, presence of grandmothers and number of young children indicate country differences." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1994 bis 2001. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2007/4