Women's Career Development and Divorce Risk in Japan

Abstract

ABSTRACT In Japan, divorce rates have more than doubled since the mid‐1960s, and female paid employment has increased rapidly in the past few decades. By applying a conventional economic model of labor force participation to micro‐level data gathered from a nationally representative sample survey, this paper shows that Japanese married women who have contemplated divorcing their husbands are more likely to participate in the workforce as full‐time paid employees. This finding suggests that an increasing risk of divorce has made a substantial contribution to the fast rise in Japanese women's participation in paid employment, particularly full‐time work.

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