Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland
This paper analyzes the impact of women’s economic activity, earnings and take-up of child home care allowance on childbearing, using a ten percent sample from a longitudinal register data set that covers the entire female population of reproductive age in Finland in 1988-2000. Results show that a woman’s economic activity and income were positively correlated with entry into motherhood and to a lesser extent with having a second child. This supports the notion of a common pattern of this relationship in the Nordic countries. In the light of Finland’s rollercoaster economic development in the 1990s, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small.
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2004
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Authors: | NNN1Vikat, FFF1Andres |
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Demographic Research Special Collections. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany. - Vol. 3.2004, 8, p. 177-212
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany |
Subject: | education | employment | family policy | fertility | fertility determinants | Finland | unemployment |
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