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Nonstandard Work and Marital Instability: Evidence From the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
Author(s) -
Kalil Ariel,
ZiolGuest Kathleen M.,
Levin Epstein Jodie
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of marriage and family
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578
H-Index - 159
eISSN - 1741-3737
pISSN - 0022-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3737.2010.00765.x
Subject(s) - national longitudinal surveys , demographic economics , longitudinal data , psychology , work hours , work (physics) , longitudinal study , survey data collection , dimension (graph theory) , economics , demography , sociology , labour economics , working hours , medicine , pathology , pure mathematics , engineering , mechanical engineering , statistics , mathematics
This article replicated and extended Harriet Presser's (2000) investigation of the linkages between nonstandard work and marital instability. We reexplored this question using data from a sample of 2,893 newlywed couples from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and using different analytic techniques. In contrast to Presser, we found that the key dimension of husbands' and wives' employment was nonemployment. Similar to Presser, we found that wives' working of fixed night shifts increased the risk of divorce, driven by the experience in marriages over 5 years in duration. However, we did not replicate Presser's finding that the effect is significant only among households with children; rather, wives' fixed night shifts were associated with divorce only among those without children.