CONTENTS

List of Figures    xi
List of Tables    xiii
Contributors    xvi

I. INTRODUCTION

1. A Cross National Comparative Approach to Couples' Careers    1
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD AND SONlA DROBNIC
2. Theoretical Perspectives on Couples' Careers    16
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD AND SONJA DROBNIC

II. THE 'CONSERVATIVE' WELFARE STATE REGIME
3. Spouses' Employment Careers in (West) Germany    53
HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD, SONlA DROBNIC, AND GOTZ ROHWER
4. Couples' Labour-Market Participation in the Netherlands    77
JOHN HENDRICKX, WIM BERNASCO, AND PAUL M. DE GRMF
5. Couples'Careers in Flanders    98
MARTINE CORIJN

III. THE 'MEDITERRANEAN' WELFARE STATE REGIME

6. The Employment Behaviour of Married Women in Italy    121
FABRIZIO BERNARDI
7. Spouses' Employment Careers in Spain    146
MARIA lOSE GONZALEZ-LOPEZ

IV. THE 'LIBERAL' WELFARE STATE REGIME
8. Married Women's Employment Patterns in Britain    175
ANDREW MCCULLOCH AND SHIRLEY DEX
9. Coupled Careers: Pathways Through Work and Marriage in the
United States 201
SHIN-KAP HAN AND PHYLLIS MOEN

V. THE 'SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC' WELFARE STATE REGIME

10. Earnings as a Force of Attraction and Specialization in Sweden    233
URSULA HENZ AND MARIANNE SUNDSTROM
11. Work Careers of Married Women in Denmark    261
S0REN LETH-S0RENSEN AND GOTZ ROHWER

VI. THE (FORMER) 'STATE SOCIALIST'REGIME
12. Employment Patterns of Married Women in Poland    281
SONJA DROBNIC AND EWA FR¥TCZAK
13. Employment Patterns in Hungarian Couples    307
PETER ROBERT, ERZSEBET BUKODI, AND RUUD LUIlKX
14. Job-Shift Patterns of Husbands and Wives in Urban China    332
XUEGUANG ZHOU AND PHYLLIS MOEN

VII. RESULTS OF CROSS-NATIONAL COMPARISONS
15. Careers of Couples and Trends in Inequality    371
SONIA DROBNIC AND HANS-PETER BLOSSFELD

Subject Index    387
Author Index