Abstract To adequately examine the impact of job insecurity and unemployment on life satisfaction in the context of increasing de-standardisation of work arrangements, this study distinguishes nuanced forms of perceived job insecurity and unemployment and integrates them into a single scale for employment instability. These forms comprise (1) no perceived job insecurity, (2) some or (3) severe job insecurity, (4) voluntary unemployment, (5) involuntary unemployment, and (6) other reasons for unemployment. Using dyadic data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for working-age individuals and their partners, both perceived job insecurity and unemployment lead to decreased life satisfaction, with unemployment having a more pronounced impact on life satisfaction. Involuntary reasons for unemployment are more detrimental to life satisfaction than voluntary reasons. Overall, men suffer more from employment instability than women and their employment instability has a stronger impact on their female spouses’ life satisfaction than vice versa. The results are interpreted through the lens of ‘doing gender’ and ‘gender deviation’ theory.

Abstract Household and Population Social Sciences cover a high number of topics in Economics, but also in other fields such as Sociology, Psychology and Demography, among others. In this paper, we analyze the production and networks of a total of 6472 authors who have published 5070 papers in a selection of top cross-disciplinary journals (indexed in SSCI of WOS) which cover these topics of Household and Population Social Sciences between January 1969 and January 2021 (Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Feminist Economics, the Review of Economics of the Household, the Journal of Demographic Economics, Demography, Population and Development Review, and the European Journal of Population). Using the Impact Factor (IF) corresponding to the year of publication, our results first identify the academic leaders among those authors, as well as other results in terms of communities. Results reveal that the largest community is led by the sociologist Trude Lappegard; the community with the largest production is led by the economist Samuel H. Preston and the one associated with the most central author, the psychologist Ariel Kalil, is led by the economist Greg J. Duncan. Additionally, we note that collaborations among these authors are very rare, with only their first neighborhoods collaborating, which shows the need for greater collaboration between these social sciences to improve authors’ academic visibility.

Abstract This study investigates the effect of women’s bargaining power on household stock investment. Using data from the 2019 wave of the China Household Finance Survey (CHFS), this study finds that women’s bargaining power within the household was positively related to household stock investment. Specifically, we explored the mediating effects of financial information attention and the moderating effects of risk preference and financial literacy on the relationship between women’s bargaining power and household stock investment. The results show that women's bargaining power improved household stock investment indirectly by increasing the spouses’ attention to economic and financial information. We also find that wives’ risk preference and financial literacy intensified the positive effect of women’s bargaining power on household stock investment. The positive relationship between women’s bargaining power and household stock investment was relatively strong for below-median wealthy households. In addition, the effect of women’s bargaining power on household stock investment intensified with the increasing age of the wives. A discussion of the results and implications for policy making are included.

Abstract A robust body of research provides evidence of a strong connection between identity development and age-related functioning. A sense of financial identity may be an important precursor of adult self-sufficiency. For this reason, the study of financial identity (i.e., the answer to the question “Who am I from a financial point of view?”) as a domain-specific component of identity development during the transition to adulthood is a timely and important topic worldwide. In order to properly investigate the financial identity domain, a reliable and valid instrument is needed. The aim of the current study is to test both a variable-centered model and a person-centered model of the 12-item Financial Identity Scale in an international sample of 4,960 emerging adults from ten different countries: Austria, Finland, Hungary, India, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, and the United States. The variable-centered model of the Financial Identity Scale suggests that the 12 items measure four latent factors, each corresponding to a different identity status: achievement, foreclosure, diffusion, and moratorium. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed this model in seven out of ten countries, and approximate measurement invariance indicated that Financial Identity Scale scores were comparable across these countries. The person-centered model of the Financial Identity Scale suggests that the four statuses of financial identity present three different configurations in the population: pathfinders, followers, and drifters. The latent profile analysis conducted in the current study identified four distinct profiles, the first three of which correspond to those in the original model, and a fourth which was labelled “Indecisive”. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.