that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer from family migration, which is usually stimulated by the career of …

women in Italy. Using the Indagine longitudinale sulle famiglie italiane (ILFI) of 1997 and 1999, we estimate multiplicative … intensity models for the transition to (i) cohabitation as first relationship and (ii) direct marriage of women in Italy … semi-structured interviews with cohabiting and married women (who experienced a previous cohabitation) in Italy. The …

The deep drop of the fertility rate in Italy to among the lowest in the world challenges contemporary theories of … female labor force participation that would favor higher fertility than its European neighbors to the north. We test … and fertility, but the clear importance of regional differences and of secularization suggests that such an explanation is …

of women into the labor market. By contrasting the fertility development in these two societies, this paper aims to … illuminate how women’s education and employment relates to fertility decisions in societal contexts that support (in the case …The aim of this paper is to compare family policies and fertility patterns in the former German Democratic Republic …

sequential birth of two single children. The divorce risk for a woman with a very young child was lower than the risk for women … without children or women with children older than 3.5 years. This behaviour was essentially independent of the number of …

moving is a stressful life event and that numerous studies suggest that women’s economic well-being and employment suffer …