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Marriage formation as a process intermediary between migration and childbearing

Hoem, Jan M.; Nedoluzhko, Lesia - In: Demographic Research 18 (2008) 21, pp. 611-628

In studies of differences in fertility between migrants and non-migrants, marriage interferes because migration can be … motivated by an impending marriage or can entail entry into a marriage market with new opportunities. One would therefore expect … the time around the move because migration temporarily disturbs the life of the migrant. In any case marriage appears as a …

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Demographic trends in Sweden

Andersson, Gunnar; Liu, Guiping - In: Demographic Research 5 (2001) 3, pp. 65-78

previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by calendar year in order to cover the developments up …

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Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 16, pp. 381-404

some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of education as well as level of education. The … first paper is about childlessness and education, the present one about the mean number of children ever born. We find that … ultimate fertility decreases somewhat with an increasing educational level, but its dependence on the field of education is …

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Education and childlessness

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 14 (2006) 15, pp. 331-380

In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the … conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses register records containing childbearing and educational … high number of educational field-and-level combinations (some sixty in all). It turns out that the field of education …

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Labor-market status, migrant status and first childbearing in Sweden

Lundström, Karin E.; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 27 (2012) 25, pp. 719-742

During recent decades fertility in Sweden has evolved in tandem with the business cycle. Supported by social policies, both women and men tend to postpone starting a family until they have acquired a secure job with decent earnings. In this study we add to previous research by investigating how...

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Recent fertility patterns of Finnish women by union status

Hoem, Jan M.; Jalovaara, Marika; Muresan, Cornelia - In: Demographic Research 28 (2013) 14, pp. 409-420

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High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul; Andersson, Gunnar - In: Demographic Research 21 (2009) 31, pp. 915-944

This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural focus of most previous studies of within-nation variations in fertility by distinguishing between...

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The negative educational gradients in Romanian fertility

Muresan, Cornelia; Hoem, Jan M. - In: Demographic Research 22 (2010) 4, pp. 95-114

Romania, second and third birth rates have been found to decline when moving across groups with increasing education, and the …

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Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state

Andersson, Gunnar; Scott, Kirk - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 30, pp. 897-938

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to these women, as well as to a sample...

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Understanding parental gender preferences in advanced societies: Lessons from Sweden and Finland

Andersson, Gunnar; Hank, Karsten; Vikat, Andres - In: Demographic Research 17 (2007) 6, pp. 135-156

Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to compare childbearing dynamics and possible underlying sex preferences among natives and national...

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