Family patronage, institutional patronage, and work family conflict: women’s employment status and subjective well-being in urban China

The Journal of Chinese Sociology

Table 4 Multi-level mixed effects ordered logistic regression models to estimate the subjective well-being of women in urban China (pairwise comparison)

Variables	Public sector vs private sector^a		Public sector vs unemployed^b		Private sector vs unemployed^c
Variables	Model 1a	Model 1b	Model 2a	Model 2b	Model 3a	Model 3b
Employment status	0.297***	0.176	−0.196	−0.072	0.390**	−0.240
Control variables^#	Controlled	Controlled	Controlled	Controlled	Controlled	Controlled
Total weekly work hours^d
41–50 h		−0.342*		−0.370*		0.169
51–60 h		−0.123		0.387		0.180
Over 61 h		−0.778***		−0.428		−0.588**
Cutting points	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted	Omitted
N	1515	1515	1515	1515	1515	1515
Log-likelihood	−1646.87	−1524.12	−1323.95	−1321.88	−1699.95	−1692.00

⁺ p < 0.10; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
^#The control variables include age, years of schooling, Hukou status, party membership, religion, marital status, income of other family members, has minor children or not, housing area, social welfare, self-rated health, personal income and self-rated social mobility. Model 1a and 1b also considers occupational type
^aReference group: work in the private sector
^bReference group: unemployed
^cReference group: unemployed
^dReference group: 40 h or below