Life Course Patterns of Career-Prioritizing Decisions and Occupational Attainment in Dual-Earner Couples  

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Pixley, Joy E.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Work & Occupations vol. 35 no. 2 (May 2008), page 127-163.
Topik: dual-earner couples; career hierarchy; occupational attainment; life course; methods
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Couples’ long-term pattern of favoring one spouse’s career in major decisions is thought to affect occupational trajectories, but current research has looked only at short-term effects of single decisions. This article applies a new technique, the interpolated curves approach, to represent and compare life course patterns of major career-prioritizing decisions, using in-depth data from 51 couples. Five clusters of career hierarchy patterns are identified; the patterns predict income better than summary measures of career hierarchy, including average individual career gains to decisions and self-reported career priority. Findings are significant for wives, and are similar but weaker for husbands.

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