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Mothers in the New Zealand workforce

Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand

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Title Mothers in the New Zealand workforce
 
Creator Flynn, Sophie
Harris, Magdalen
 
Subject Motherhood; paid work; labour market; Household Labour Force Survey; Survey of Working Life
 
Description Motherhood is a significant factor in how women participate in paid work. Women are likely to restructure their work arrangements or withdraw from the labour market while caring for dependent children (OECD, 2011). However, women’s participation in the labour force has increased over time, in part due to more mothers remaining in and re-entering the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to look at the demographic and labour force characteristics of women in the prime parenting age group (those aged 25–49 years), in relation to their parent and partner statuses. Data from the Household Labour Force Survey and the Survey of Working Life are used to create a picture of these different groups of women over time, to identify the factors affecting a mother’s ability to participate in the labour market, and to understand how work arrangements and conditions for employed mothers differ from employed non-mothers’.
 
Publisher Victoria University of Wellington
 
Date 2015-02-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/2216
10.26686/lew.v0i0.2216
 
Source Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand; 2015: Labour, Employment and Work in New Zealand
2463-2600
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/LEW/article/view/2216/2055
 
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