earnings, which increase over time. For women, the effect of the salary has an inverse U shape, and employment stability has … between men´s and women´s economic activity and transition to first marriage. Our findings support the men´s economic … stability hypothesis, the search hypothesis and the income pooling hypothesis; and counter the women´s economic independence …

effect of income and an indirect effect of job security satisfaction on childbearing intentions, whereas for women no direct …

Maternity leave policies are designed to ease the tension between women’s employment and fertility, but whether they … actually play such a role remains unclear. We analyze the individual-level effects of maternity leave on employment outcomes … and on second conception rates among Russian first-time mothers from 1985-2000 using retrospective job and fertility …

, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. …

unemployment, are related to the fertility and family formation of women and men in contexts across Europe. It covers studies on …This special collection of Demographic Research is devoted to the issue of how economic and employment uncertainties … relate to fertility and family dynamics in Europe. The collection is based on contributions to a workshop held in Berlin in …

After the state socialist regime of Poland collapsed in 1989, the nation’s total fertility rate plummeted from 2.1 to … intentions and decision making. These data reveal that discriminatory practices by employers against pregnant women and women … the urgent need to redress fundamental gendered discrimination in employment before work-family reconciliation policies …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … show that increasing child care subsidies conditional on employment increases labor supply of all women as well as …

Drawing on data from new Russian retrospective surveys, this study examines the relationship between women’s employment … light of the independence effect of women’s employment. … within the two periods, the risk of union dissolution was similar among women who worked and women who did not work. In the …

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 … from the family of origin. The analysis is based on the Fertility and Family Surveys and discrete-time multinomial logistic …