Similar Search Results

Fertility and women´s employment reconsidered: A macro-level time-series analysis for developed countries, 1960-2000

Engelhardt, Henriette; Kögel, Tomas; Prskawetz, Alexia - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2001

This paper examines causality and parameter instability in the long-run relationship between fertility and women’s employment. This is done by a cross-national comparison of macro-level time series data from 1960–2000 for France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. By applying...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818196

Fertilität, Familiengründung und Familienerweiterung in den nordischen Ländern

Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar; Hoem, Jan M.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

Dieser Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit der Geburtenentwicklung in den nordischen Ländern seit den 1970er Jahren und den Wirkungen familienpolitischer Maßnahmen auf die Fertilitätsentwicklung. Basis der Analysen bilden Auswertungen harmonisierter Registerdaten Dänemarks, Finnlands, Norwegens...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818224

Fertility differences by housing type: an effect of housing conditions or of selective moves?

Kulu, Hill; Vikat, Andres - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This study examines fertility variation across housing types and childbearing patterns after housing changes. While the effect of family changes on housing choices has been studied in detail, little is known about childbearing patterns within various housing types, despite the fact that many...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818244

Fertility and spatial mobility: evidence from Austria

Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2005

There is a growing body of literature looking at the interplay between an individual’s residential and other careers in the life-course. Previous research has mostly studied the impact of partnership and employment changes on spatial mobility. This paper focuses on the effect of childbearing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818272

Happiness: before and after the kids

Myrskylä, Mikko; Margolis, Rachel - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

in fertility. However, most research on fertility and happiness uses cross-sectional data, hindering causal conclusions …. We study trajectories of parental happiness before and after the birth of a child using British and German panel data and … methods which control for unobserved parental characteristics. We find that happiness increases prior to and in the year of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646131

Bayesian forecasting of cohort fertility

Schmertmann, Carl; Zagheni, Emilio; Goldstein, Joshua R.; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2012

There are already several documented examples of recent increases in cohort fertility in Scandinavia, but for most countries, cohorts are too young to see if cohort fertility has increased. We produce new estimates of completed cohort fertility for cohorts born in the 1970s. We combine the best...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646137

High development and fertility: fertility at older reproductive ages and gender equality explain the positive link

Myrskylä, Mikko; Kohler, Hans-Peter; Billari, Francesco C. - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2011

A fundamental reversal of the traditional fertility-development relationship has occurred in highly developed countries so that further socioeconomic development is no longer associated with decreasing fertility, but with increasing fertility. In this paper, we seek to shed light on the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322377

Migration and fertility: competing hypotheses re-examined

Kulu, Hill - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2003

Competing views exist concerning the impact of geographical mobility on childbearing patterns. Early research shows that internal migrants largely exhibit fertility levels dominant in their childhood environment, while later studies find migrants’ fertility to resemble more closely that of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005565956

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

Hoem, Jan M.; Neyer, Gerda R.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2006

This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for 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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700159

High suburban fertility: evidence from four Northern European countries

Kulu, Hill; Boyle, Paul J.; Andersson, Gunnar - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2008

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700160