Kalmijn Matthijs, Luijkx Ruud
Department of Social Cultural Sciences, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.
Popul Stud (Camb). 2005 Jul;59(2):211-31. doi: 10.1080/00324720500099587.
The study presented here analyses the reciprocal relationship for men between employment career and union formation and examines whether this relationship changed across twentieth-century birth cohorts. Competing hypotheses about trends are described, using notions of role-specialization, spouse support, and uncertainty. The study is based on an investigation of the life histories of 2,795 men in the Netherlands who were born between the 1930s and the 1960s, and confirms earlier findings by showing that employment fosters marriage while marriage protects men from becoming unemployed. There is also a relationship between employment and cohabitation but it is weaker in both directions. However, the relationship between marriage or cohabitation and occupational mobility is less clear, suggesting that the economic benefits of marriage cannot be generalized to the occupational domain. Although it is commonly believed that the link for men between career and marriage has weakened over time, our comparison of birth cohorts shows that in fact this is not the case.
本文呈现的研究分析了男性就业生涯与组建家庭之间的相互关系，并考察了这种关系在20世纪不同出生队列中是否发生了变化。文中使用角色专业化、配偶支持和不确定性等概念描述了关于趋势的相互竞争的假设。该研究基于对荷兰2795名出生于20世纪30年代至60年代男性的生活史调查，证实了早期的研究结果，即就业促进婚姻，而婚姻保护男性免于失业。就业与同居之间也存在关系，但在两个方向上都较弱。然而，婚姻或同居与职业流动之间的关系不太明确，这表明婚姻的经济益处不能推广到职业领域。尽管人们普遍认为男性职业生涯与婚姻之间的联系随着时间推移而减弱，但我们对不同出生队列的比较表明，事实并非如此。
