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Do Highly Educated Daughters of Immigrants Adapt to the Middle-class Division of Labour After Childbirth? Evidence from Second-generation Pakistani and Vietnamese in Norway Cover

Do Highly Educated Daughters of Immigrants Adapt to the Middle-class Division of Labour After Childbirth? Evidence from Second-generation Pakistani and Vietnamese in Norway

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|Jan 2024

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Figure 1

Kaplan–Meyer survival functions for work entries following childbirth.

Table 1

Work re-entry following childbirth among majority women and descendants of immigrants from Pakistan and Vietnam. Results of Cox regression. All work entries. Presented as hazard ratios (HR) and [95% CI].

MODEL 1MODEL 2MODEL 3
VARIABLEHRCIHRCIHRCI
Country of origin (baseline: Native Norwegians)
      Pakistan0.80**[0.70, 0.91]0.81**[0.71, 0.93]0.84*[0.72, 0.98]
      Vietnam1.27**[1.07, 1.50]1.15[0.97, 1.36]1.09[0.89, 1.34]
Level of education (baseline: Short university education)
      Long university education1.09*[1.04, 1.15]1.09***[1.04, 1.15]
Interaction terms
      Long university education#0.90[0.67, 1.20]
      Pakistani origin
      Long university education#1.18[0.83, 1.68]
      Vietnamese origin
N (individuals)13,88413,88413,884
N (person-days)4,852,3984,852,3984,852,398
Number of events (work entries)11,66411,66411,664

[i] Notes: CI = confidence interval. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05. Models 2 and 3 are stratified by year, region and weekly working hours at last employment and adjusted for age, age2, union status, parity, ln(income), sector of last employment, partner employment status, partner income and endogamy. Full table including all covariates is presented in the supplementary material (Table A2).

Table 2

Work re-entry following childbirth among native Norwegians and descendants of immigrants from Pakistan and Vietnam. Results from Cox regression. All work entries. Presented as hazard ratios (HR) and [95% CI].

MODEL 4
VARIABLEHRCI
Country of origin (baseline: Native Norwegians)
      Pakistan0.81**[0.71, 0.93]
      Vietnam1.39***[1.16, 1.66]
Interaction term
Vietnam# Time (baseline: time <= 350 days and Vietnamese origin = 1)
      Time > 350 days and Vietnamese origin = 10.39***[0.24, 0.64]
N (individuals)13,884
N (person-days)4,852,398
Number of events (work entries)11,664

[i] Notes: CI = confidence interval. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05. Stratified by year, region and weekly working hours at last employment. Adjusted for age, age2, union status, parity, ln(income), level of education, sector of last employment, partner employment status, partner income and endogamy. Full table including all covariates is presented in the supplementary material (Table A3).

Table 3

Work re-entry following childbirth among majority women and descendants of immigrants from Pakistan and Vietnam. Results from Cox regression. Return to full-time versus part-time work. Presented as hazard ratios (HR) and [95% CI].

MODEL 5 RETURN TO FULL-TIME WORKMODEL 6 RETURN TO PART-TIME WORK
VARIABLEHRCIHRCI
Country of origin (baseline: Native Norwegians)
      Pakistan0.87[0.73, 1.04]0.78*[0.64, 0,95]
      Vietnam1.48***[1.22, 1.81]0.74[0.54, 1.02]
N (individuals)13,88413,884
N (person-days)4,852,3984,852,398
Number of events (work entries)5,4746,190

[i] Note: CI = confidence interval. *** p < 0.001, ** p < 0.01, * p < 0.05. Stratified by year and weekly working hours at last employment. Adjusted for age, age2, union status, parity, ln(income), level of education, sector of last employment, region, partner employment status, partner income and endogamy. Full table including all covariates is presented in the supplementary material (Table A4).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.665 | Journal eISSN: 1799-649X
Language: English
Page range: 2 - 2
Submitted on: Jan 16, 2023
Accepted on: Sep 5, 2023
Published on: Jan 31, 2024
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

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