On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child

Ina Berninger, Michael Wagner and Bernd Weiß
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Ina Berninger: Universität Bremen
Michael Wagner: Universität zu Köln
Bernd Weiß: Universität zu Köln

Demographic Research, 2011, vol. 24, issue 24, 579-610

Abstract: We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partners’ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partnership quality. We assume that a satisfactory partnership is positively associated with the intention to have a first child. The analyses are based on a subsample of the German Generations and Gender Survey. For men we found a direct effect of income and an indirect effect of job security satisfaction on childbearing intentions, whereas for women no direct and only a weak indirect impact of precarious work could be observed.

Keywords: fertility; employment; partnerships (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.24

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