TY - JOUR
T1 - Order amidst change
T2 - Work and family trajectories in Japan
AU - Rindfuss, Ronald R.
AU - Choe, Minja Kim
AU - Kabamalan, Maria Midea M.
AU - Tsuya, Noriko O.
AU - Bumpass, Larry L.
N1 - Funding Information:
The 2000 National Survey on Family and Economic Conditions in Japan was funded by the COE Project on the Asian Financial Crisis and Its Macroeconomic Responses at Keio University, and also by a Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research (11CE2002) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. The analyses reported here were partially supported by a grant from NICHD to the East-West Center (R01-HD042474). Gayle Yamashita provided excellent programming assistance.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Substantial family and work macro-level change has been occurring in Japan. Examples include a decline in the availability of jobs that afford lifetime protection against unemployment, an increase in jobs that do not carry benefits such as a pension, an increase in age at marriage and at first birth, and an increase in marital dissolution. Using life history data from the 2000 National Survey on Family and Economic Conditions, young Japanese appear to have responded to these macro-level changes in a fairly orderly manner. Marriage and childbearing have been postponed, but marriage still precedes childbearing. Education is completed prior to starting work. For men, once work commences, they continue working. For women, the classic conflict between work and family roles is evident. For men and women in both the family and work spheres, Japanese young adults have more orderly life course trajectories than American young adults.
AB - Substantial family and work macro-level change has been occurring in Japan. Examples include a decline in the availability of jobs that afford lifetime protection against unemployment, an increase in jobs that do not carry benefits such as a pension, an increase in age at marriage and at first birth, and an increase in marital dissolution. Using life history data from the 2000 National Survey on Family and Economic Conditions, young Japanese appear to have responded to these macro-level changes in a fairly orderly manner. Marriage and childbearing have been postponed, but marriage still precedes childbearing. Education is completed prior to starting work. For men, once work commences, they continue working. For women, the classic conflict between work and family roles is evident. For men and women in both the family and work spheres, Japanese young adults have more orderly life course trajectories than American young adults.
KW - Family
KW - Fertility
KW - Japan
KW - Life course
KW - Work
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U2 - 10.1016/j.alcr.2010.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.alcr.2010.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:78649466186
SN - 1040-2608
VL - 15
SP - 76
EP - 88
JO - Advances in Life Course Research
JF - Advances in Life Course Research
IS - 2-3
ER -
