Paid employment participation after leaving full-time education the first time

Hsu, Edmond

Paid employment participation after leaving full-time education the first time

This paper addresses the question: what factors are associated with, or influence, a partnered male's participation in paid employment over his lifetime? Analyses in this paper are restricted to males who are aged 25 to 64 and have a partner. Of particular interest is whether a non-intact family background has a negative impact on an individual's paid employment participation later in life, when the effects of other covariates are adjusted for in [the authors'] statistical models. In order to answer these questions, two different parametric statistical models are applied to the first wave data ... Show more