Raymo, James, and Hiromi Ono Working paper no. 2004-16 Abstract Unlike their counterparts in most industrialized societies, Japanese women are spending an increasingly longer proportion of their young adult years unmarried and living with parents. …
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Economic Independence or Marriage Market Mismatch? An Alternative View of the Relationship between Women’s Education and Marriage in Japan
Raymo, James, and Miho Iwasawa Working paper no. 2004-17 Abstract Results from cross-national research suggest that increasing economic independence for women contributes to lower rates of marriage only in societies characterized by relatively asymmetric gender …
Bridal Pregnancy and Spouse Pairing Patterns in Japan
Raymo, James, and Miho Iwasawa Working paper no. 2007-10 Abstract Very low levels of nonmarital childbearing in Japan obscure important changes in the relationship between marriage and fertility. In this paper, we first describe trends …
Cohabitation and First Marriage in Japan
Raymo, James, Miho Iwasawa, and Larry Bumpass Working paper no. 2007-14 Abstract In this paper, we use nationally representative data to describe basic characteristics of cohabiting unions in Japan. We also examine the correlates of …
Educational Differences in Married Women’s Labor Force Transitions in Japan
Raymo, James, and So-jung Lim Working paper no. 2007-15 Abstract In this paper, we examine educational differentials in married women’s attachment to the labor force in Japan. Using ten waves of data from a nationally …
Expectations and Realization of Joint Retirement among Dual-Worker Couples
Ho, JeongHwa, and James Raymo Working paper no. 2007-16 Abstract Using data from the first five waves of the Health and Retirement Study (1992~2000), we examine: (1) the extent to which joint retirement expectations are …
Later-life Employment Preferences and Outcomes: The Role of Mid-life Work Experiences
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert Hauser, and JeongHwa Ho Working paper no. 2008-15 Abstract It is increasingly clear that older Americans will need to work longer in order to ensure their …
Explanations for the Fertility Reversal after 2005 in Japan
Iwasawa, Miho, Ryuichi Kaneko, Kenji Kamata, James Raymo, and Kimiko Tanaka Working paper no. 2010-11 Abstract The goal of this paper is to evaluate explanations for the total fertility rate (TFR) upturn in Japan after …
The Impact of Work and Family Life Histories on Economic Well-Being at Older Ages
Halpern-Manners, Andrew, John Robert Warren, James Raymo, and D. Adam Nicholson Working paper no. 2010-13 Abstract Motivated by theoretical and empirical research in life course sociology, we examine relationships between trajectories of work and family …
Precarious Employment, Bad Jobs, Labor Unions, and Early Retirement
Raymo, James, John R. Warren, Megan M. Sweeney, Robert M. Hauser, and Jeong-Hwa Ho Working paper no. 2010-14 Abstract Objectives:We examined the extent to which involuntary job loss, exposure to “bad jobs,” and employment in …