Special Collection 3 - Article 8 | Pages 177–212
Women’s Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland
| Date received: | 04 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 |
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.
Author's Affiliation
Andres Vikat - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE), Switzerland
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