| 英文摘要 |
Research on work–family conflict has been conducted primarily in Western industrialized nations, but economic globalization has increased the importance of work–family trade-offs in developing countries. The data used in this analysis were derived from the gender and family module of two waves of the Taiwan Social Change Surveys conducted in 2002 and 2012. We examined a sample of nonaboriginal women with no children enrolled in elementary school to determine how they address work–family trade-offs. This study proposes that two mechanisms (comparative advantage and opportunity cost) be applied separately to three nonopposing hypotheses: weak, semistrong, and strong. By combining the results of opportunity cost and comparative advantage models, we determined that the weak and semistrong hypotheses were supported. After we offset the impact of other variables such as the cohort effect and survey year, the main factor for a wife to consider when addressing work–family trade-offs was the opportunity cost of her own investment in human capital. This cost consideration had a more prominent impact on the wife’s tendencies, preferences, and awareness regarding employment and her employment status than did the principle of comparative advantage between the husband and wife. |
