Gendered intergenerational transmission of work values?

• Verfasst von: Cemalcilar, Zeynep [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Jensen, Carsten [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Tosun, Jale [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Gendered intergenerational transmission of work values?
• Titelzusatz: a country comparison
• Verf.angabe: by Zeynep Cemalcilar, Carsten Jensen, and Jale Tosun
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: March 13, 2019
• Umfang: 14 S.
• Fussnoten: Gesehen am 08.05.2019
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: American Academy of Political and Social ScienceThe annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
• Ort Quelle: Thousand Oaks, Calif. [u.a.] : Sage Publ., 1890
• Jahr Quelle: 2019
• Band/Heft Quelle: 682(2019), 1, Seite 125-138
• ISSN Quelle: 1552-3349
• DOI: doi:10.1177/0002716218823681
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1664971874

Abstract

In this study, we examine two research questions: Are the work values of young people determined by the work values of their parents? Is the transmission of work values conditioned by the young adults’ gender? We use original survey data for respondents aged 18-35 and their parents in Denmark, Germany, Turkey, and the UK to explore these questions. Our findings reveal a robust pattern: in all four countries and for all four types of work values we measure, young adults’ work values are strongly influenced by their parents’ work values. We also find a gender effect among German respondents: work plays a more central role in the lives of young men than in the lives of young women. Gender helps to explain attitudes toward female labor force participation in all of the countries we studied, and we find no evidence that gender conditions the effect of the intergenerational transmission of work values except for in the UK, where gender does condition the effect of family attitudes on young peoples’ extrinsic work values and their views on work centrality.