出版社：Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training
摘要：When a woman's pregnancy precedes her marriage, what sort of impact does it have on her future career. In this paper, we examine this issue. Since marriage preceded by pregnancy is concentrated in certain socioeconomic status groups, in addition to ordinary methods of estimation, we also employed models using the propensity score of marriage preceded by pregnancy, in order to balance the structure of covariates. The results show that although those who have ex- perienced marriage preceded by pregnancy are more likely than their counter- parts to quit their jobs after marriage, the likelihood of their being full-time (rather than non-regular) employees after childbirth is higher than those in the other group. They are also more likely to be employed full-time when their first child is one year old. However, we found no statistically significant dif- ference between the two groups in terms of childcare leave utilization, em- ployment status after controlling for age of youngest child, or annual income. While the likelihood of resignation from work is higher among women who have experienced marriage preceded by pregnancy, their status does not appear to place them at an extreme disadvantage in terms of likelihood of employ- ment, or employment status, after childbirth. In a social climate marked by an ongoing weakening of factors other than pregnancy that encourage women to marry, we speculate that marriage precipitated by pregnancy will gain increas- ing social acceptance as a pattern of family formation.
