Erwerbsstatus und Familienentwicklung in Schweden aus paarbezogener Perspektive

Gunnar Andersson, Ann-Zofie Duvander and Karsten Hank
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Gunnar Andersson: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Karsten Hank: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2004-006, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: This paper investigates the role of men’s and women’s labor-market attachment in the process of family building in Sweden, taking the perspective of couples. Using register data for the years 1981 to 1999 we estimate event-history models for second and third births. It is shown that income and employment of both partners have a largely independent effect on the propensity to have another child. The effect is of similar size for men and women and points to a generally positive relationship between our employment variables and continued childbearing (which is contrary to assumptions suggested by the ‘New Home Economics’, for example). The finding that a traditional family context tends to hamper higher parity births in Sweden points to a relatively high degree of gender equity in that society.

Keywords: Sweden; family dynamics; fertility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2004-006

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