Home-based work and childbearing

Beata Osiewalska, Anna Matysiak and Anna Kurowska

Population Studies, 2024, vol. 78, issue 3, 525-545

Abstract: We examine the timely yet greatly under-researched interplay between home-based work (HBW) and women’s birth transitions. Past research has shown that HBW may facilitate and/or jeopardize work–family balance, depending on the worker’s family and work circumstances. Following that research, we develop here a theoretical framework on how HBW can facilitate or hinder fertility. Using the UK Household Longitudinal Study 2009–19 and random-effects cloglog regression, we study the link between HBW and first- and second-birth risks. We find that HBW is negatively associated with the transition to motherhood and unrelated to the progression to a second child. We also show that HBW helps to enable women to have children if they would otherwise face a long commute. All in all, our findings do not support the idea that the spread of HBW will lead to an immediate increase in fertility.

Date: 2024
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