Negotiating Work and Family Spheres: The Dyadic Effects of Flexible Work Arrangements on Fertility Among Dual-Earner Heterosexual Couples.

IF 3.6 1区社会学 Q1 DEMOGRAPHY

Demography Pub Date : 2024-08-01 DOI:10.1215/00703370-11466849

Senhu Wang, Jolene Tan

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Abstract

Academics and policymakers have suggested making flexible work arrangements (FWAs) the default in workplaces to promote a family-friendly workplace culture conducive to having and raising children. However, systematic research investigating how FWAs, as a long-term approach to negotiating work-family spheres, are related to fertility among dual-earner heterosexual couples is limited. Drawing on the linked-lives perspective, we theorize the relationship between FWAs and fertility among couples and potential variation depending on the interplay of both spouses' work and family characteristics. We test our hypotheses using longitudinal couple-level dyadic data in the United Kingdom (2010-2022). We find that although FWA availability alone is unrelated to fertility, wives' (not husbands') FWA use is significantly associated with a higher probability of experiencing a first birth. Moreover, the effect of wives' FWA use is particularly pronounced when both spouses work in professional and managerial occupations and when husbands contribute a larger proportion of income and at least equal housework. This study reveals a gendered effect of FWAs on fertility across work-family arrangements, deepening our understanding of couple-level dynamics in the fertility process.

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协商工作与家庭：灵活的工作安排对双职工异性夫妇生育率的影响。

学术界和政策制定者建议在工作场所默认灵活的工作安排（FWAs），以促进有利于生育和养育子女的家庭友好型工作场所文化。然而，关于灵活工作安排作为一种协商工作与家庭领域的长期方法，如何与双职工异性夫妇的生育率相关的系统性研究十分有限。借鉴 "关联生活 "视角，我们从理论上分析了家庭工作与夫妻生育率之间的关系，以及夫妻双方工作与家庭特征之间的潜在差异。我们使用英国（2010-2022 年）夫妇层面的双向纵向数据来验证我们的假设。我们发现，尽管家庭WA 的可用性本身与生育率无关，但妻子（而非丈夫）使用家庭WA 与较高的头胎生育概率显著相关。此外，当夫妻双方都从事专业和管理职业，且丈夫贡献了较大比例的收入和至少同等的家务劳动时，妻子使用家庭日补贴的影响尤为明显。这项研究揭示了在不同的工作-家庭安排中，家庭补贴对生育率的性别影响，加深了我们对生育过程中夫妻层面动态的理解。

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Demography DEMOGRAPHY-

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期刊介绍： Since its founding in 1964, the journal Demography has mirrored the vitality, diversity, high intellectual standard and wide impact of the field on which it reports. Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from the past to the present, and reaching toward the future. Authors whose work is published in Demography benefit from the wide audience of population scientists their research will reach. Also in 2011 Demography remains the most cited journal among population studies and demographic periodicals. Published bimonthly, Demography is the flagship journal of the Population Association of America, reaching the membership of one of the largest professional demographic associations in the world.