Mooi-Reci, I; Craig, L
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2020-01-10)
Using data from the Household, Income, and Labour Dynamics in Australia
(HILDA) Survey, we examine whether living in jobless families where
parents devote more time to household work shields children against their
own joblessness in the future. We draw on a representative sample of young
adults who were aged between 4 and 17 years in 2001 and lived with both
parents through to 2007 (N = 1,852). A series of mixed-effect regression
models suggest that dual-parent joblessness is associated with an increase
in families’ overall household production...