This article investigates the dual-earner model in families with children in Finland and Sweden from the end of the 1980s to the beginning of the 2000s. During this period the two countries introduced the same kind as well as different kinds of policies in relation to the dual-earner model....

Past literature on the family gap - the difference in outcomes for mothers and women without children - discusses inequality in wages and employment. This study examines family gaps in the economic well-being of households, and analyzes the extent to which they are reduced by the availability of...

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 in the US. Since then many researchers have gathered...

Vital statistics clearly indicate that the fertility rate in East Germany dropped sharply after German unification; moreover, it has not yet rebounded but remains stable at a low level. This paper uses data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) to examine births in the former German...

Academic women in Austria and Germany have extraordinarily high final levels of childlessness of 45-60%, as documented by prior research. This study investigates how female scientists' fertility behaviour relates to their childbearing ideals and intentions in Austria. It analyses whether high...

The 'Generations and Gender Survey (GGS)' is an important data source for studying the dynamics of families and family relationships, it was carried out in Austria in 2008/09. Additionally, the Austrian Academy of Sciences financed data collection among female scientists in Austria. In total,...

Angesichts des Fachkräftemangels im Bereich von Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IKT) werden unterschiedliche Lösungsstrategien diskutiert. Die mögliche Mobilisierung bislang nicht ausgeschöpfter Personengruppen (Stille Reserven) lenkt den Fokus auf Frauen als potentielle...

Es ist nicht das erste Mal, daß abzwien bzw. einzelne Maßnahmen der Einrichtung einer Evaluation unterzogen wurden. Die Ergebnisse einer ersten - eher qualitativ orientierten -Evaluation, die den Charakter einer wissenschaftlichen Begleitung hat, erschien 1995 als Nr. 2 der Wiener Reihe des...

Das AMS Wien faßte im Jahr 1998 intern den Beschluß, Wiedereinsteigerinnen als Zielgruppe speziell zu unterstützen. In der Folge wurde seitens des AMS Wien in Kooperation mit dem Wiener ArbeitnehmerInnen Förderungsfonds (WAFF) ein Grundgerüst für Kursmaßnahmen zur Unterstützung...