Education and Postponement of Maternity (eBook, PDF)

Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries
Redaktion: Gustafsson, Siv; Kalwij, Adriaan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines economic aspects of the role of women's education in the postponement of maternity in ten industrialized countries or regions: Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Western Germany, the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany, and the United States. Each is investigated using survey data relating age at motherhood with the investment in education of the mother. The result is a detailed picture of the economics of fertility decisions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 327
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402047169
• Artikelnr.: 37341113

Inhaltsangabe

and Contributions of this Volume.- Fertility Decisions: Economic Theory, Empirical Analysis, and Policy Relevance.- The Marginal Effect of School Leaving Age on Demographic Events. A Contribution to the Discussion on Causality.- Explaining the Fertility Decline in Ireland.- Female Labour Force Participation and Marital Fertility in Italy.- Career planning in Spain: do fixed-term contracts delay marriage and parenthood?.- The Family Earnings Gap and Postponement of Maternity in the United States.- Household Consumption, Saving and Employment Around the Time of Births in The Netherlands.- Family Formation in East and West Germany Before and After Unification.- Education and Entry into Motherhood in the Czech Republic During State-Socialism and the Transition Period 1970-1997.- Assortative Mating by Education and Postponement of Couple Formation and First Birth in Britain and Sweden.- Education and Completed Fertility in Norway.