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A high educational attainment is shown to have a positive effect on second birth rates for Danish one-child mothers during the period 1981-94. We examine whether a time-squeeze is a possible explanation: due to the longer enrolment in the educational system, highly educated women have less time...
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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...
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structural models with controls for endowments. These possibilities are increasingly used in the context of fertility and related … behaviors. A close congruence between the fertility patterns of twins and that of the general population, however, is an … essential pre-condition in order to generalize the results of twin-based investigations of fertility and related behaviors to …
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Despite the small size of Denmark, there have traditionally been rather consistent regional differences in fertility … concisely illuminating the regional differences of first-time births in Denmark. From the Fertility of Women and Couples Dataset … that the APC-model describes the fertility rates of nulliparous women satisfactorily. To catch the regional variation an …
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Europe. This study examines fertility variation across settlements in four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and …There is a growing body of literature that looks at the causes of below-replacement fertility in developed countries … studied in detail, little is known about the differences in fertility patterns across settlements within a country. A few …
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three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying event-history techniques to … register data of the three countries in order to describe and contrast fertility developments by birth order over the last … of various cross-country differences in fertility levels. We can determine to what extent developments in one country are …
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Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...
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Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
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explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …
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complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …
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