This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on … unstable jobs, and aggregate-level indicators of employment uncertainty. Male unemployment has a negative influence on the … by unemployment spells only for men who have faced long-term unemployment. Employment uncertainty thus tends to delay …

birth in calendar year t if they experienced a spell of unemployment in year (t-2) or (t-1). This holds even if the … unemployment spell is followed by a change in the woman’s activity status. The latter normally leads to a closer attachment to …

were used. The characteristics of regions included unemployment rate, level of urbanisation, voting turnout, a summary … characteristics on mortality were clear among those who suffered from long-term unemployment in the baseline but not among others …

Continuous-time hazard models are estimated from register-based birth, migration, education and unemployment histories … higher-order birth rates are slightly lower. Although men’s unemployment has a more pronounced negative effect, according … to paternity rate models, the overall conclusion is that unemployment in Norway has had a negligible impact on fertility …

July 2009, which in turn was stimulated by the onset of the economic recession in 2008. The collection comprises studies on … unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …

This paper seeks to advance our understanding about the impact of unemployment on fertility. From a theoretical …