The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical … in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

-risks be related to labour market performance‘ In other words, to what extent do the fertility decisions of successfully … of family formation, a lengthy process of occupational integration tends to delay the transition to parenthood for both …

Family patterns in Western countries have substantially changed across the 1940 to 1990 birth cohorts. Adults born more … one partnership. These changes have led to an increasing diversity in family life courses. In this paper, we present a … microsimulation model of family life trajectories, which models the changing family patterns taking into account the complex …

Family dynamics are changing in Europe, but only few studies investigate how cohort completed fertility is affected by … increasing prevalence of union dissolution on completed fertility levels in Italy and Great Britain, two countries with very … different systems of value. We find that the net effect of union instability is to decrease fertility (by about 0.5 children for …

fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …In this survey, we argue that the economic analysis of fertility has entered a new era. First-generation models of … fertility choice were designed to account for two empirical regularities that, in the past, held both across countries and …