In this paper we apply tempo-adjusted period parity progression ratios (Kohler and Ortega 2002) to Sweden, the … interest for demographers. The goal of our analyses is to (a) describe past fertility trends in these countries in terms of … synthetic cohorts and (b) project the level and distribution of completed fertility in cohorts who have not finished …

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

Sweden, taking the perspective of couples. Using register data for the years 1981 to 1999 we estimate event-history models … Home Economics’, for example). The finding that a traditional family context tends to hamper higher parity births in Sweden … points to a relatively high degree of gender equity in that society. …

-child parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on life histories of foreign-born mothers …. Our context is a universalistic welfare state geared towards gender and social equality where formal social rights largely … associations of parents’ labor-market status with childbearing in Sweden differ between women and men and by country of origin. We …

individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro … recent advances in the implementation of this database. Although conceptually linked to the Generations and Gender Survey …

the timing of fertility. However, the positive impact of development on fertility is conditional on gender equality …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 …

This paper investigates whether unemployment and insecure employment periods merely delay fertility or also impact on … completed fertility in France. It analyses both the timing of first childbearing and the fertility reached at age 40. Different … timing of first childbearing, while periods of insecure employment delay fertility for women. Completed fertility is impacted …

test of gender equity theory by examining whether the unequal division of household labour leads to lower fertility … market participation and the lowest-low fertility. The Netherlands has moderate to low gender inequity, high part-time female …Fertility levels have fallen drastically in most industrialized countries. Diverse theoretical and empirical frameworks …