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- Andersson, Gunnar, et al.
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Labour-market status and first-time parenthood: The experience of immigrant women in Sweden, 1981-97
- 2005
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Ingår i: Population Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1477-4747 .- 0032-4728. ; 59:1, s. 21-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the impact of labour-market attachment on first births of foreign-born women in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based dataset consisting of the entire population of immigrants from ten nations and a 5-per-cent random sample of natives. The effects of earned income are evident, with increased income levels increasing the probability of becoming a mother for all observed nationalities. The effects of various forms of participation and non-participation in the labour force do not vary greatly between immigrants and the Swedish-born. Among all subgroups, we find a higher propensity to begin childbearing among those who are established in the labour market. Contrary to popular belief, receiving welfare benefits clearly reduces first-birth intensity for immigrants but not for natives. The similarity in patterns across widely different national groups supports the notion that various institutional factors affecting all subgroups are crucial in influencing childbearing behaviour.
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- Hoem, Jan M., 1939-, et al.
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Early traces of the Second Demographic Transition in Bulgaria : A joint analysis of marital and non-maritalunion formation, 1960–2004
- 2008
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Ingår i: Population Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0032-4728 .- 1477-4747. ; 62:3, s. 259-271
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We explore trends in first-union formation in Bulgaria from 1960, using data from the national Gender andGenerations Survey of 2004. We analyse jointly the transition into cohabitation and directly into marriage.The standardized marriage rate falls dramatically from the early 1980s; the corresponding rate of entry intocohabitation has already increased from the early 1960s but (surprisingly) falls moderately toward the endof our period. Cohabitation also tends to last progressively longer in more recent periods. The analysisshows that a pregnancy leads to a dramatic increase in the rate of both kinds of union formation: theincrease is by a factor of almost 20 for marriage formation and about 10 for entry into cohabitation, ceterisparibus. Our findings suggest that, in Bulgaria at least, some manifestations of the Second DemographicTransition can be detected as early as the 1980s.
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- Härkönen, Juho, 1977-, et al.
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Divorce in Cross-National Perspective : Results from the Fertility and Families Surveys
- 2008
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Ingår i: Population Studies. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0032-4728 .- 1477-4747. ; 62:3, s. 273-288
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- We used data on women's first marriages from the Fertility and Family Surveys to analyse the intergenerational transmission of divorce across 18 countries and to seek explanations in macro-level characteristics for the cross-national variation. Our results show that women whose parents divorced have a significantly higher risk of divorce in 17 countries. There is some cross-national variation. When compared with the USA, the association is stronger in six countries. This variation is negatively associated with the proportion of women in each cohort who experienced the divorce of their parents and with the national level of women's participation in the labour force during childhood. We conclude that differences in the contexts in which children of divorce learn marital and interpersonal behaviour affect the strength of the intergenerational transmission of divorce.
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