Family patronage, institutional patronage, and work family conflict: women’s employment status and subjective well-being in urban China  

作　　者：Yuxiao Wu Peng Wang Chao Huang 

机构地区：[1]Department of Sociology,Nanjing University,Nanjing,China [2]Department of Sociology,Shandong University,Jinan,China.

出　　处：《The Journal of Chinese Sociology》2016年第1期412-431,共20页中国社会学杂志（英文）

基　　金：the“Dengfeng Talents Project(Level B)”research grant from Nanjing University.The authors thank the editor and the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions on the earlier drafts.

摘　　要：This paper concerns women’s life chances by investigating the relationship betweenwomen’s employment status and their subjective well-being. Based on the segmentedlabor market structure in urban China, we divide urban women into three groups,i.e., women working in the public sector, women working in the private sector, andwomen who are not in the labor market. Analyzing data from the 2013 ChineseGeneral Social Survey, we find that (1) married women in better family economicsituations are more likely to opt out of the labor force;(2) compared to womenworking in the public sector, women working in the private sector spend more hoursin paid work per week;and (3) among the three groups, women working in the privatesector have the lowest level of subjective well-being. Adopting the new institutionalistperspective, we propose three mechanisms, i.e., family patronage, institutionalpatronage, and work-family conflict, to interpret the empirical findings. Ourresearch highlights how women’s employment and subjective well-being areshaped both by institutional context and normative environment.

关 键 词：Family patronage Institutional patronage Work-family conflict Women’s employment Subjective well-being 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]