Adolescent employment, family income and parental divorce

Anat Herbst-Debby; Amit Kaplan; Miri Endeweld; Noa Achouche

doi:10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100772

Adolescent employment, family income and parental divorce

Anat Herbst-Debby
, Amit Kaplan
, Miri Endeweld
, Noa Achouche

Gender Studies Program

Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College

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Abstract

The study examines the relation between parental family status, family income and three aspects of adolescent employment: the likelihood to be employed, the adolescent's earnings and the share of the adolescent's earnings as part of family income. While the relation between parental divorce and adolescents’ outcomes has been widely studied, the relation between parental divorce, family income and the adolescent's employment has received less attention. Based on longitudinal administrative data on 12–17 year olds (n = 4023), results showed that adolescents whose family had a medium income level and those experiencing parental divorce had higher employment rates. Once employed, adolescents from the lowest household income level had higher earnings and contributed a higher share of household income than adolescents from the middle and top levels. While experiencing parental divorce was unrelated to adolescents’ earnings, it did increase their contribution to household income compared to peers from intact families. The combination of parental divorce and low family income increased the adolescent's share compared to less vulnerable socioeconomic groups. The study proposes another mechanism of coping with low family income in general and with the negative economic consequences of union dissolution in particular: the adolescent as third breadwinner.

Original language	English
Article number	100772
Journal	Research in Social Stratification and Mobility
Volume	84
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2023.100772
State	Published - Apr 2023

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This article benefited from the support of the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number: 2334/19). We thank the Journal of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility editor and reviewers for their enlightening comments and suggestions. We also thank Helene Hogri, our editor, for her important contribution.☆ The first two researchers won the ISF grant and they both made an equal contribution to the article. The third and fourth researchers are postdoctoral fellows in the gender studies program at Bar Ilan University. This article benefited from the support of the Israel Science Foundation (Grant number: 2334/19 ). We thank the Journal of Research in Social Stratification and Mobility editor and reviewers for their enlightening comments and suggestions. We also thank Helene Hogri, our editor, for her important contribution.

Funders	Funder number
Bar-Ilan University
Israel Science Foundation	2334/19

Keywords

Adolescents’ employment
Coping mechanisms
Divorce
Low-income families
Union dissolution consequences

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