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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 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
Macro societal trends Women in paid work Unstable families New model(s) for family provision Gender equality light?
Gendered poverty risks Male & female Work sphere Unemployment Illness Accidents Female Family sphere Divorce Pregnancy Caring 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
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
Variables Family • Couple (baseline) • Partnershipdissolution • Single • Birthofchild • Numberofchildren Work • Full-time work (baseline) • Part-time work • ‘Forced’ inactive • Inactive Partner work • Partner full-time (baseline) • Partner part-time • Partner inactive Control variables • Highereducation (baseline) • Uppersecondary • Lowersecondary • Age Dependent variable • Income poverty (poor/not poor) • 60% median poverty line • Equivalisedmonthly net household income (modified OECD scale) • Deflated to 2001 prices
Poverty risks – descriptive stats Generic Single Forced inact Inactive Gendered Men - PT British Child birth Norway Britain Partnership dissolution