1 Poverty - risks and triggers Family, work and gender equality in Norway and Britain Anne Hege Strand PhD candidate Department of Sociology University of Bergen Eight meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce Valencia 14 -16 Oct 2010
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Poverty - risks and triggers Family, work and gender equality in Norway and Britain
Anne Hege StrandPhD candidate
Department of SociologyUniversity of Bergen
Eight meeting of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce
Valencia 14 -16 Oct 2010
Macro societal trends
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Women in paid work Unstable families
New model(s) for family provision
Gender equality light?
Gendered poverty risks
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Male & female
UnemploymentIllness
Accidents
Female
DivorcePregnancy
Caring
Work sphere
Family sphere
Source: Daly 2000, Ruspini 2000
Conceptual framework
Poverty risks•Cross sectional•Static•Between group differences•Pooled regression
Poverty triggers•Longitudinal•Dynamic•Within person changes•Fixed effects
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Data
• Norwegian Level of Living Panel Survey LEVPAN (1997-2002)
• 6 years of data• Sample individuals
• British Household Panel Survey BHPS (1997-2004) (waves 7-14)
• 8 years of data• Sample households
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VariablesFamily •Couple (baseline)•Partnership dissolution•Single•Birth of child•Number of children
Work •Full-time work (baseline)•Part-time work•‘Forced’ inactive•Inactive
Control variables•Higher education (baseline)•Upper secondary•Lower secondary
•Age
Dependent variable•Income poverty (poor/not poor)•60% median poverty line•Equivalised monthly net household income (modified OECD scale)•Deflated to 2001 prices
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Descriptive statistics
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Norway Britain Men Women Men WomenFamily characteristics
Couple 68.8 72.2 85.0 78.0
Partnership dissolution 2.3 2.5 1.1 1.2 Single 29.0 25.3 13.9 21.0 Birth of child 3.4 2.4 4.9 4.7 No. of children 1 child 17.7 18.2 17.4 19.6 2 children 19.2 18.7 18.4 19.3 3 children 7.6 9.0 6.0 5.8 4 or more children 1.8 1.5 1.2 1.2 Work characteristics