Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland
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 tha...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-85e19cfb51c54724b1f0c952986a9e9d2022-12-21T20:14:03ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712004-04-01Special collection 38Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in FinlandThis 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.http://www.demographic-research.org/special/3/8/educationemploymentfamily policyfertilityfertility determinantsFinlandunemployment |
| spellingShingle | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland Demographic Research education employment family policy fertility fertility determinants Finland unemployment |
| title | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland |
| title_full | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland |
| title_fullStr | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland |
| title_full_unstemmed | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland |
| title_short | Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland |
| title_sort | women s labor force attachment and childbearing in finland |
| topic | education employment family policy fertility fertility determinants Finland unemployment |
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