Economic and sociological theories of marriage have long emphasized the impact of women’s education and employment on … focus on three indicators of women’s autonomy: educational attainment, employment status and having lived independently …

hypothesis, but only to a certain degree. For men, we find a positive effect of employment stability, and a positive effect of … earnings, which increase over time. For women, the effect of the salary has an inverse U shape, and employment stability has … positive effect on marriage. Over the life course, we find that men who have a continuum of stable employment have the highest …

employment characterize recent labor market instability in Europe. This paper analyzes the associations between timing to a … proportional hazard model of second births. Both individual and aggregate unemployment as well as temporary employment are coupled … and the economic conditions - provincial unemployment and share of temporary employment- faced by women as they enter the …

This study explores the relationship between migration and employment in Ouagadougou. Using both a cross-sectional and …

This paper investigates the impact of female employment on fertility in two urban contexts in sub-Saharan Africa: Dakar … (Senegal) and Lomé (Togo). The hypothesis that wage employment and maternal obligations are incompatible seems to be … in order to accurately determine the influence of female employment on reproductive life. …

in parental employment. However, parental employment appears to do less to protect children from economic hardship than …

This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties … how various dimensions of employment uncertainty, such as temporary working contracts and individual and aggregate …