Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland

Andres Vikat
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Andres Vikat: United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE)

Demographic Research Special Collections, 2004, vol. 3, issue 8, 177-212

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of women’s economic activity, earnings and take-up of child home care allowance on childbearing, using a ten percent sample from a longitudinal register data set that covers the entire female population of reproductive age in Finland in 1988-2000. Results show that a woman’s economic activity and income were positively correlated with entry into motherhood and to a lesser extent with having a second child. This supports the notion of a common pattern of this relationship in the Nordic countries. In the light of Finland’s rollercoaster economic development in the 1990s, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small.

Keywords: fertility; education; employment; family policy; Finland; fertility determinants; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2004.S3.8

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