60 - Martial status,work and family characteristics

Emotional support from the family can help a worker advance in their occupation.  Marriage or cohabitation with a romantic partner is a motivating force for the worker to perform their job efficiently and effectively.   Conversely, divorce and single parenthood can add significant stress to one’s work life. This research had the objective to study the impact of marital status on burnout in the workplace.  Multiple linear regression was applied to a sample of 55,936 workers from 78 organizations in Thailand.  This study found that single workers reported experiencing job burnout more readily that those currently married, and this relationship was statistical significant for three dimensions of job burnout: emotional exhaustion, cynicism, and inefficacy.   In addition, divorced men were more prone to burnout than their married counterparts.  In any case, divorce was not necessarily a predictor of job burnout.  Indeed, single mothers who had experienced a divorced were no more likely to experience burnout than their married counterparts.

In the society of Han Chinese, that children take the surnames of their fathers is a norm. Giving children their mothers' surnames was a custom of uxorilocal marriage. However, not all children of uxorilocal marriage took their mothers' surnames. We therefore are interested in learning how uxorilocal marriage couples surname their children, and what factors affect the surnaming behaviors. This research will rely on "Taiwan Historical Household Registers Database (THHRD), 1906-1945" to study children of uxorilocal couples in 19 settlements in Taiwan. Researchers will first implement logistic regression analysis to examine the effects of the factors, including individual, family, and structure factors. Further, we will adopt the technique of social sequence analysis to examine the surnaming sequences by birth orders of children. We will additionally analyze the associations of surnaming sequences with the characteristics of family structure and uxorilocal couples. In general, this research may provide us lessons to understand how people in East Asia to continue family line while the low birth rate is an issue nowadays.

Across the globe many young people have difficulties in finding a good job and they experience precarious periods of unemployment, temporary and informal employment. This applies particularly to post-Soviet countries in the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) where youth face multiple uncertainties due to ongoing social transformation processes and persistent labour market problems. Such problems are seen as factors contributing to the delay of further youth transitions such as first marriage. While previous research investigated this issue in Europe, the US and East Asia not much is known about it in the CCA region. This paper fills this research gap by analysing how experiencing labour market uncertainties during the early career affects the timing of first marriage using nationally representative, retrospective life history data of the from Azerbaijan (N=2002), Georgia (N=2000) and Tajikistan (N=2000) that were collected in 2016/17. Multivariate event history analyses on the relationship between the transition from education to work and the transition to first marriage are presented. Gender-specific analyses are conducted as it is expected that the effects differ between men and women. Results are compared across countries in order to detect similarities and differences across the three CCA countries.