Research

Economic Resources and Family Behaviors among Women and Men: A Comparative Perspective — The major goal of this project is to provide a systematic examination of the ways women’s and men’s economic roles (and resources) affect their family behaviors, in different institutional contexts. I focused on three main issues: the first examined the role institutional contexts play in shaping the relationships between couples’ economic resources and the stability of their marriage; the second examined to what extent differences in welfare regimes affect the relationships’ between women’s employment and fertility; and the third studies the labor supply of couples under different institutional arrangements.

Skill-Based Inequality in the Quality of Work – This study focuses on market inequalities in job quality. My main interest is to explore skill-based inequalities in different measures of job quality and to understand the mechanisms that produced this inequality. For this end, the study takes a comparative approach, focusing on countries which represent different labor market institutions, and examines the processes that produced (or hindered) the growth of a skilled-based polarization in these labor markets during the last three decades.

Comparative study of family policies on work-family issues – an on-going comparative research on work-family issues, including work-family balance, gender relationships within the family and gendered division of household labor, women’s work patterns and the inter-relationships of fertility and women’s employment.