The Effects of Household Conditions on Wife’s Employment Status in Hong Kong

DOI

10.2991/asshm-13.2013.6How to use a DOI?

Keywords

household conditions; employment status; multivariate logit analysis; income; immigrant.

Abstract

This paper addresses the effects of household conditions on married women’s employment status in Hong Kong. Using population census data in Hong Kong, labor force participation and working wives’ earnings are examined to evaluate married women’s employment status. Findings from multivariate logit analysis reveal that wives’ participations in labor market are significantly negatively associated with extreme low or high household income while the differences caused by such association is not significant for wives from the two middle quartiles. Considering the effects on wife’s earnings, OLS regression analysis shows a small positive association between household income excluding wives’ earnings and working wives’ earnings.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Muzhi Zhou
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DA  - 2013/12
TI  - The Effects of Household Conditions on Wife’s Employment Status in Hong Kong
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Advances in Social Science, Humanities, and Management
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 25
EP  - 32
SN  - 1951-6851
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