Objective: Starting from the fact that there is no obvious link between timing of first births and fertility levels in Europe, we find under certain circumstances, birth postponement potentially facilitates rather than impedes starting a family.

Abstract Across the OECD, public policies seek to support parents in achieving their desired work/life balance. This article introduces background and issues at stake promoting equal partnerships families Germany. Families Germany face considerable challenges spending more time together a gender‐balanced reconciliation of work family life, as paid hours for fathers are long on full‐time jobs many women part‐time jobs. Family policy can play an important role has made substantial progress...

Abstract This paper shows that differences in fertility across European countries mainly emerge due to fewer women having two children low-fertility countries. It further suggests childcare services are an important determinant for the transition a second child occur. The theoretical framework we propose (i) where coverage is low, there U-shaped relationship between couple’s probability of and woman’s potential wage, whereas (ii) with easy access childcare, this positively related wage. Data...

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) are increasingly used in demographic analysis, due to their large country coverage, the availability of harmonized socioeconomic measures, possibility merge partners. Howeve

Abstract Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supply decisions. We explore the subjective cost of young children in Europe by analysing effect child births parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet, link it changes objective economic well-being such as income, benefits, employment. The study based EU-SILC longitudinal data for 30 European countries from 2004 2019, enabling comparisons between country groups different welfare regimes....

We test in how far women’s economic participation can be associated with physical and/or sexual domestic violence against women Turkey, by mobilizing the Survey “National Research on Domestic Violence Women Turkey” (wave 2014). Several studies found that economically active have a similar, if not higher risk of experiencing than inactive as well other emerging countries. challenge these findings for Turkey distinguishing between formal and informal labor market activities who do work because...

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Cet article étudie les effets de l’emploi des femmes sur deuxièmes naissances dans l’Europe contemporaine. En utilisant données longitudinales issues Statistiques communautaires le revenu et conditions vie (EU-SILC) 2003 à 2011, agrégées provenant la base l’OCDE famille, nous identifions éléments démontrant que l’exercice d’un emploi augmente significativement probabilité d’une deuxième naissance chez femmes. L’ampleur l’effet diffère toutefois selon individus. L’effet positif est plus...

L'inversion de la tendance, appelée « rebond fécondité », qui accompagne le processus développement économique dans certains pays développés, mais pas tous, montre que l'incidence du sur est ambiguë. Le caractère positif ou négatif cette incidence dépend nombreux facteurs, en plus dimension économique. Dans mesure où affecte croissance démographique et pyramide des âges, ses évolutions un futur immédiat ont conséquences très importantes économique, productivité aspects protection sociale....

A common problem when using panel data is that an individual's history incompletely known at the first wave. We show multiple imputation, method commonly used for are missing due to non-response, may also be impute these "missing by design." Our application a woman's duration of fulltime employment as predictor her risk birth. multiply-impute status two years earlier "incomplete" cases which observed only in most recent year. then pool "completed" with "complete" derive regression estimates...

Résumé Cet article propose une analyse croisée des soutiens financiers apportés aux familles – prestations familiales et compensations de charges en France Allemagne. Il compare les principaux instruments mis œuvre, le volume dépenses l’effet redistributif dispositifs. Entre deux systèmes, l’analyse fait ressortir différences qui reflètent divergences plus profondes normes valeurs familiales. L’article contribue à expliquer écarts constatés quant au travail taux fécondité femmes, mettant...

In this study, we ask whether the U-shaped relationship between life satisfactionand age is flatter for individuals who are partnered. An analysis of cross-sectionalEU-SILC data indicates that decline in satisfaction from teens to thefifties almost four times larger non-partnered than partnered individuals,whose essentially follows a slight downward trajectory with age.However, same applied three panel datasets (BHPS, SOEP andHILDA) reveals U-shape both groups, albeit somewhat partneredthan...

Understanding child-related costs is crucial given their impact on fertility and labour supplydecisions. We quantify compare the cost of children in Europe by analysing effect ofchild births parents’ self-reported ability to make ends meet. This study based EUSILClongitudinal data for 30 European countries from 2004 2015, enabling comparisonsbetween country groups different welfare regimes. Results show that newborns decreasesubjective economic wellbeing all regions, yet with economies...