The diversity of pathways to childlessness in the Czech Republic: The union histories of childless men and women
Klímová Chaloupková, J. & Hašková, H. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 46, 100363 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363
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Klímová Chaloupková, J. & Hašková, H. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 46, 100363 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100363
Matysiak, A. & Mynarska, M. (2020). Advances in Life Course Research, 45, 100329 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100329
As self-employment offers greater flexibility compared to wage and salary contracts, women might choose it to achieve a better work-family balance. Past empirical research on this topic yielded equivocal results, however. We add to this discussion and provide evidence for Poland. Public support for working parents in Poland is relatively poor and women need to develop strategies in order to …
Mönkediek, B. (2020). Demographic Research, 42, 461-496 10.4054/DemRes.2020.42.16
BACKGROUND People’s demographic decision-making is embedded in regional cultural contexts that include regional patterns of family organization called family systems. Although previous research has shown that family systems explain regional variation in fertility, it has focused mainly on historical or developing societies. Processes of modernization have led to substantial changes in family structures and values and to an overhaul of …
Hannemann, T., Kulu, H., González‐Ferrer, A., Pailhé, A., Rahnu, L., & Puur, A. (2020). Population, Space and Place, 26(5), e2315 10.1002/psp.2315
Abstract This study investigates union formation and dissolution among immigrants and their descendants in four European countries with different migration histories and family patterns (United Kingdom, France, Spain, and Estonia). Although there is a growing body of literature on migrant families in Europe, there is still little comparative research on partnership dynamics among immigrants and their descendants. We apply event …
Trimarchi, A. & Van Bavel, J. (2020). European Journal of Population, 36(3), 439-464 10.1007/s10680-019-09537-w
This study investigates the link between the educational characteristics of partners in heterosexual relationships and their transition to second births, accounting for the selection into parenthood by fitting multi-level event history models. We compare the fertility of Beckerian unions characterized by gender-role specialization with the fertility of dual-earner couples, characterized by the pooling of incomes. Focusing on the economic aspect …
Sakkeus, L., Abuladze, L., Rahnu, L., & Puur, A. (2020). Revue d’études comparatives Est-Ouest, N° 4(4), 69-113 10.3917/receo1.504.0069
Pour expliquer l’émergence de comportements alternatifs en matière de famille et de fécondité, l’article mobilise des cadres explicatifs concurrents : rapport à la modernité et position sociale défavorisée. À partir des données recueillies dans le cadre de l’enquête sur les générations et les rapports de genre dans les deux pays (2004-2005), notamment auprès des femmes nées entre 1924 et 1986, …
Mureşan, C. & Oláh Sz., L. (2020). Romanian Journal of Population Studies, 13(2), 35-52 10.24193/RJPS.2019.2.03
Non-marital cohabitation has become increasingly common in advanced societies, although somewhat less so in Central-Eastern Europe in the period immediately following the fall of state socialism. In this paper we focus on changes in men’s first partnership patterns in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania between the 1980s and early 2000s, specifically addressing gender differences with respect to the effects of …
Pelletier, D., Bignami-Van Assche, S., & Simard-Gendron, A. (2020). Social Indicators Research, 152(3), 1127-1151 10.1007/s11205-020-02464-y
The transformation of life courses in industrialized countries since the mid-twentieth century can be analyzed through the lens of life course complexity, a function of the number of transitions or states experienced by individuals over a given time span. Life course complexity is often measured with composite indices in a static sequence analysis framework (i.e. over a single age interval), …
Tanskanen, A., Danielsbacka, M., & Rotkirch, A. (2020). Evolutionary Psychology, 18(1), 1474704920907894 10.1177/1474704920907894
Based on kin selection theory, amounts of grandparental investment should reflect the probability to share common genes with offspring. Adoption may represent a special case, however, yet grandparental investment in adopted children has previously been both theoretically misconstrued and little investigated. Here, we study for the first time how grandparental childcare provision is distributed between biological, adopted, and step-offspring. Using …
Kurowska, A. (2020). Social Indicators Research, 151(2), 405-425 10.1007/s11205-018-2034-9
Abstract This paper explores gendered impact of home-based work (HBW) on the capability to balance work with non-work in double-earner families with dependent children in two countries with distinct models of division of labour: Poland and Sweden. At first, I critically engage with the WLB conceptualization in HBW studies and try to address identified gaps. Driving from the theoretical concept …
Ezdi, S. & Baş, A. (2020). Demographic Research, 43, 59-96 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.3
BACKGROUND A plethora of emergent literature is investigating the prevalence of gender preferences among immigrant communities in Western industrialized countries. Such research not only sheds light on fertility preferences of immigrants but also unearths immigrant assimilation versus persistence processes. Germany has a long history of immigration but has maintained an ethnic assimilationist regime. Turkish immigrants form the largest immigrant community …
Mynarska, M. & Rytel, J. (2020). Journal of Family Issues, 41(1), 7-32 10.1177/0192513X19868257
In modern societies, a growing number of people choose to remain childless. As childlessness has fundamental consequences for individuals and societies, it is of paramount importance to understand this choice. We investigate which childbearing motives are related to low-fertility desire of Poles, deterring them from wanting to have children? We look at the motivations of 939 nulliparous men and women, …
Paglino, E. & Emery, T. (2020). Demographic Research, 43, 1461-1494 10.4054/DemRes.2020.43.50
BACKGROUND Past research has criticized the quality of the Generations and Gender Survey retrospective fertility and partnership histories. For example, fatigue and learning effects were deemed responsible for distortions in the Generations and Gender Survey in Germany. OBJECTIVE We assess the quality of the Generations and Gender Survey for Belarus (GGS-BL) in 2017 to assess whether the new centralized fieldwork …
Kantorová, V., Wheldon, M., Ueffing, P., & Dasgupta, A. (2020). PLOS Medicine, 17(2), e1003026 10.1371/journal.pmed.1003026
Peri-Rotem, N. (2020). Population, Vol. 75(1), 9-38 10.3917/popu.2001.0009
La fécondité baisse et l’infécondité augmente généralement avec le niveau d’instruction des femmes. On ne sait pas vraiment si un niveau d’études supérieures implique un comportement reproductif identique chez les femmes selon les confessions et les pratiques religieuses. Cette étude utilise des données issues de l’Enquête par panel auprès des ménages britanniques (BHPS) et du volet français de l’enquête Generations …
Van Winkle, Z. (2020). European Journal of Population, 36(4), 765-798 10.1007/s10680-019-09551-y
Abstract The diversity of early family life courses is thought to have increased, although empirical evidence is mixed. Less standardized family formation is attributed to compositional changes in educational attainment, labour market participation, and childhood living conditions. I investigate whether and why family trajectories have become more or less standardized across birth cohorts in Sweden. I combine sequence metrics with …
Halla, M., Mayr, H., Pruckner, G., & García-Gómez, P. (2020). Journal of Health Economics, 72, 102325 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2020.102325
Despite the growing incidence of cesarean deliveries (CDs), procedure costs and benefits continue to be controversially discussed. In this study, we identify the effects of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply by exploiting the fact that obstetricians are less likely to undertake CDs on weekends and public holidays and have a greater incentive to perform them on Fridays …
Spéder, Z., Murinkó, L., & Oláh, L. (2020). Population Studies, 74(1), 39-54 10.1080/00324728.2019.1694165
Following steep falls in birth rates in Central and Eastern European countries during the economic and institutional restructuring of the early 1990s, governments made substantial efforts to stop or at least reduce the fertility decline. In Hungary, parents with three or more children could benefit from specific new policy measures: the flat-rate child-rearing support paid from the youngest child’s third …
(2020). Life Course Research and Social Policies (pp. 195-213) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-44575-1_10
AbstractChildren often live in two households after their parents break up, which may affect their development. We investigate feelings of loneliness among children of separated parents using two alternative hypotheses. The first assumes that children experience “dual family life” as offering opportunities or a richer source of support because of the increased number of close relatives involved in their life, …
Buber-Ennser, I., Rengs, B., Kohlenberger, J., & Zeman, K. (2020). In E. Carlson & N. Williams (Eds.), Comparative Demography of the Syrian Diaspora: European and Middle Eastern Destinations (pp. 139-163) Cham: Springer International Publishing 10.1007/978-3-030-24451-4_7
Migration is an important issue for Austria, a central European country with 8.8 million inhabitants in 2018. Roughly 47,000 persons born in Syria were residing in Austria at the beginning of that year, most of them arriving after 2014. This chapter provides insights on the Syrian population in Austria, including age, gender, legal status, education, marital status, fertility, previous labor …