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Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994 pp 81–106Cite as

Family Life Cycle and Employment in Flanders: Results from NEGO V (1991)

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This study analyses recent changes in the labour force course of Flemish men and women across the family life cycle on the basis of retrospective data from the Fifth Fertility and Family Survey in Flanders (NEGO V, 1991). A new type of work force involvement has expanded considerably during the eighties, one that gives priority to non-market activities around which a part-time job must be fitted. An overview of the institutional context that has fostered the expansion of part-time employment in Belgium provides the background for the data analysis.

The relative importance of part-time employment, full-time employment, and non-employment is considered by constructing age-cohort tables of time spent in different ‘activities’. Special attention has been given to gender differences generated by marriage and parenthood. The influence of educational level is investigated for women only.

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Callens, M. (1995). Family Life Cycle and Employment in Flanders: Results from NEGO V (1991). In: van den Brekel, H., Deven, F. (eds) Population and Family in the Low Countries 1994. European Studies of Population, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0269-8_3

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