| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 社會學系 === 98 === In Western Society, the divorce rate is increasing recently. At the same time, some researchers also observe that women’s labor participation is rising. Someone doubts that divorce rate may correlates with labor participation. The dominant theoretical perspective on martial stability is economic independence hypothesis. The hypothesis presumes a positive effect of wives’ economic independence on the risk of divorce. Some studies also show who married women have more economic ability, such as get a paid work or high earnings, will face higher risk of divorce. However, the results of researches aren’t consisting and still complex. In Taiwan, the results of studies support economic independence hypothesis. But researches discuss what direct factors influence the risk of divorce is very less. Besides, early studies are often using cross section data that not enough to prove causal relation between the risk of divorce and economic factors.This article examines economic independence hypothesis again, but uses different data and method. Event-history analyses of data from Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD). The result shows that working women have higher risk of divorce than women who do not work. It is a positive relationship between employment effect and the risk of divorce. However, when we test that the percentage of work years, we find that the effect of work years shows U-shaped relationship. Comparing with wives in the group of middle percentage of work years, the low or high percentage both have positive effect on the risk of divorce. This is different to the results of prior Taiwan studies. Women work have long time in labor market may attribute to economic independence: one reason is the tradition role of family that broken and result in conflict, the other is economic ability can decrease the cost of divorce. Women work only short time in labor market or never work that because lack of economic ability that can’t help to share family economic stress and lead to lower bargaining power in family.
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