TY  - JOUR
A1  - Berninger, Ina
A1  - Wagner, Michael
A1  - Weiß, Bernd
T1  - On the links between employment, partnership quality, and the desire to have a first child: The case of West Germany
Y1  - 2011/04/15
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 579
EP  - 610
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2011.24.24
VL  - S12
IS  - 24
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/24/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/24/s12-24.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/special/12/24/s12-24.pdf
N2  - We examine the impact of precarious work (low income and job security satisfaction) on the intention to have a first child. We consider a direct and an indirect effect; the latter is mediated by partners’ conflict behaviour, conflict level, and partnership quality. We assume that a satisfactory partnership is positively associated with the intention to have a first child. The analyses are based on a subsample of the German Generations and Gender Survey. For men we found a direct effect of income and an indirect effect of job security satisfaction on childbearing intentions, whereas for women no direct and only a weak indirect impact of precarious work could be observed.

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