Determinan Transisi Kerja Ibu Menikah di Indonesia Pasca Anak Melewati Usia Dini

Deskripsi

The existing social norms demand mothers to hold the highest responsibility for domestic work, leading to a trade-off between working and having children. However, this trade-off declines as the children age. This study aims to offer a new perspective on the married mothers’ working transition in Indonesia, based on the children’s life cycle, focusing on the period where the childcare burden has lessened, which is after children passed early age. Using the Indonesia Family Life Survey (IFLS) 4 and 5 data, this study explores the factors that drive mothers’ willingness to take the working trade-off. The result of this study shows that children’s age has a positive effect on the decision to change employment from informal to formal, but the decision to return working is more determined by mothers’ own age with an inverted-U effect. Mother that lives in the urban area or in Java Island is more likely to work in the formal sector, while mother whose husband works informally is more likely to work in the informal sector. This study also finds that educational homogamy negatively affects mother’s likelihood to return to work when she and her husband are both highly educated..Ada Tabel