The impact of unemployment on the transition to parenthood

"This paper seeks to advance our understanding about the impact of unemployment on fertility. From a theoretical perspective, both negative and positive effects might be expected. Existing empirical studies have produced contradictory results, partly because of varying institutional contexts, t...

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Published in:Demographic research 2010-07, Vol.23 (23, Art. 29), p.807-846
Main Authors: Özcan, Berkay, Mayer, Karl Ulrich, Luedicke, Joerg
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Altern
Altersadäquater Arbeitsplatz
Arbeitslose Frau
Arbeitsloser
Arbeitslosigkeit
Bildungsniveau
Dauer
Demography
East and West
Economic aspects
Education
Educational attainment
Effekt
Ehepartner
Einkommenseffekt
Eltern
Empirical research
Event History Analysis
Familienplanung
Federal Republic of Germany
Female fertility
Fertility
Gender
Generatives Verhalten
Germany
Geschlechtsspezifik
Kultur
Labor Market
Labour market
Men
Methodological Problems
Methodology
Modeling
Motherhood
Ostdeutschland
Parenthood
R&D
Regionaler Vergleich
Research & development
Research Article
Social aspects
Sozialer Wert
Studies
Substitution
Surveys
Unemployment
Unemployment benefits
United States
Values
Variables
Wertorientierung
Westdeutschland
Women
Working women
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Summary:"This paper seeks to advance our understanding about the impact of unemployment on fertility. From a theoretical perspective, both negative and positive effects might be expected. Existing empirical studies have produced contradictory results, partly because of varying institutional contexts, the use of different measures, and left-censoring problems. We address these theoretical and methodological problems in the extant literature. Our data comes from the German Life History Study (GLHS) and, in particular, the data on the 1971 cohort, which was collected in two representative and retrospective surveys conducted in East and West Germany in 1996-1998 and 2005. Using monthly information, we perform event history analysis to identify the timing of fertility for both men and women conditional on a number of covariates. We present our results as a comparison between East and West Germany, as the institutional contexts, the labour markets, and the value systems differ considerably between the two parts of the German state." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt; Längsschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1996 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
ISSN:1435-9871
2363-7064
1435-9871
2363-7064
DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.29