- increasing dispersion of individual wages and changes in men's and women's employment rates. Others relate to shifts in household … rising women's employment exerted a sizable equalising effect. However, changes in labour market factors, in particular …

do so differently for men and women. There is less variability in the effects of family status on men's occupational … location than on women's across countries. Whereas family responsibilities consistently sort men into the highest pay levels of … occupational categories, the pattern for women is bifurcated - with a hollowing out at the middle ranks. Using a novel set of …

than in the 1980s, which can be interpreted as a strengthening of the dual-earner model and of women's position in these …

Past literature on the family gap - the difference in outcomes for mothers and women without children - discusses …

The influence of the working life of women on their number of children has been widely discussed among demographers …. Already in 1979, Butz and Ward demonstrated a negative correlation between the fertility and workforce participation of women … employment and fertility of men, researchers believed that women with higher wages had fewer children than women with lower wages …

women's employment status in 1991 and 1992, expectations about future unemployment, and the employment status of cohabiting … or marital partners. Our hypothesis is that young women who become unemployed are likely to use this occasion to become … pregnant. We assume that the preference for children has not changed dramtically among East German women following unification …

Academic women in Austria and Germany have extraordinarily high final levels of childlessness of 45-60%, as documented … Sciences (n=196). It comprises women aged 25-45 who work in different scientific fields in Austria. Female scientists aged 40 …

among female scientists in Austria. In total, 247 women up to the age of 45 years who applied for a scholarship at the … the sample. Up to now, very little was known about the fertility behaviour of academic women in Austria, but also in other … the family formation process of women working in the academic field. …