reproductive age in Finland in 1988–2000. Results show that a woman’s economic activity and income were positively correlated with … this relationship in the Nordic countries. In the light of Finland’s rollercoaster economic development in the 1990s, 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 …

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 … timing of first childbearing, while periods of insecure employment delay fertility for women. Completed fertility is impacted …

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

by Andersson (2000) and B. Hoem (2000). Both of them found pro-cyclical patterns of fertility in Sweden during the 1980s … 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 …

-2005) by utilizing information from 6,455 males and females of the "Education and Employment Survey for Russia". The results … acquired at school and demanded by employers led to increasing risks of unemployment after education and first jobs at the …

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 …