On the link between non-standard employment and partnership dissolution in Germany and Australia

• In Event: 3531 - Variation in Sexual and Romantic Relationships by Socioeconomic Status

Abstract

This paper applies event history analysis to data from the SOEP and HILDA Survey for the period 2001-2016 to investigate the link between non-standard employment and the risk of partnership dissolution. It moves beyond previous studies by a) considering a broad range of employment types, including fixed-term and casual contracts, temporary agency work, part-time work and mini-jobs, b) investigating the intra-couple employment constellation, and c) conducting separate analyses for nonmarital cohabitations and marriages. The results show that these two partnership types are affected differently by non-standard employment. For example, permanent part-time work of the female partner is associated with a decreased dissolution risk in marriages but not in cohabitations. Temporary types of contracts are connected to increased dissolution risks in both partnership types, but particularly in Australian cohabitations. Further, the study shows that the impact of non-standard employment on the dissolution risk depends in part on the intra-couple employment constellation.

Author

• Inga Lass, University of Melbourne