Employment participation of European couples: polarisation, non-standard-employment and gender and social inequalities

Thesis

Most working-age heterosexual couples in Europe have left the male-single-earner model behind, and dual-earning has become the main form of couple employment participation. The literature documents two key related phenomena. The first is polarisation: employment participation across couples has increasingly been polarising between dual-earning and dual-workless couples, as dual-earning became the norm. The second is non-standard-employment: forms of work that depart from full-time permanen...

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Authors: Paugam, G

• DOI: 10.5287/ora-aqdoqx64g
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: Europe; gender inequality; labour force; labour market reform; female employment; employment; labour markets; inequality; polarisation
• Subjects: Sociology; Economics; Social policy