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-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the effects of unemployment on fertility vary by socio …, our results show that there are strong educational gradients in the unemployment and fertility nexus, and that the … relationship between unemployment and fertility varies by socioeconomic group. Fertility tends to be lower during periods of …
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Demographic behaviour is shaped not only by characteristics at the individual level, but also by the context in which individuals are embedded. The Contextual Database of the Generations and Gender Programme (GGP) supports research on these micro-macro links by providing cross-country...
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Childbearing within cohabitation has gained considerable ground in recent decades, but existing explanations for this development are not coherent. Proponents of the Second Demographic Transition framework interpret it rather as a pattern of progress driven by processes such as emancipation from...
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explanations concerning the low fertility levels in developed countries. This study examines the role of the outsourcing of … household labor and of childcare responsibilities in reducing the incompatibility of women’s roles and in increasing fertility …
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complete fertility histories of women as well as longitudinal information of firm-specific characteristics where these women … fertility behavior. Women who are employed in female-dominated firms have substantially higher first, second and third birth …
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characterized recent fertility trends in Russia. These were intrinsically interwoven with fundamental changes in all aspects of life … of young people in the 1990s and the 2000s. The past quarter century was also marked by concern with low fertility and … attempts to increase fertility in the early 1980s and the late 2000s. The family policies of the 1980s failed to raise …
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This paper evaluates fertility and migration theory in order to further understand the impact of migration on fertility …. I first analyze the fertility and migration literature separately and then look at the burgeoning literature on the … impact of migration on fertility. As a result, I propose an integrated framework for analyzing the migration-fertility nexus …
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This paper examines causality and parameter instability in the long-run relationship between fertility and women …
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fertility, migration, and mortality. Both disciplines share a common research object, namely human populations, and they focus …
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Russian fertility. However, many households tried to cope with this situation by engaging in multiple income generating … posi-tive impact on fertility decisions. This paper explores the association between additional em-ployment or subsistence …
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