Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland

Andres Vikat

doi:10.4054/DemRes.2004.S3.8

Special Collection 3 - Article 8 | Pages 177–212

Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland

By Andres Vikat

Date received:

4 Dec 2003

Date published:

17 Apr 2004

Word count:

8287

Keywords:

education, employment, family policy, fertility, fertility determinants, Finland, unemployment

DOI:

10.4054/DemRes.2004.S3.8

This article is part of the Special Collection 3 „Contemporary Research on European Fertility: Perspectives and Developments“

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Abstract

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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Andres Vikat - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Switzerland EMAIL

Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland

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