ISBN:
9781402047169
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
,
v.: digital
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Springer eBook Collection. Humanities, Social Science and Law Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
European studies of population v. 15
DDC:
374.1822
Keywords:
Bildungsniveau
;
Frauen
;
Mütter
;
Bildungsinvestition
;
Fertilität
;
Industrieländer
;
Schweden
;
Norwegen
;
Italien
;
Spanien
;
Irland
;
Niederlande
;
Tschechien
;
Deutschland
;
Ostdeutschland
;
USA
;
Social Policy
;
Demography
;
Economics
;
Population
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Industriestaaten
;
Bevölkerungsentwicklung
;
Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise
;
Mutterschaft
Abstract:
This book examines economic aspects of the role of women's education in the postponement of maternity in ten industrialized countries or regions: Sweden, Norway, Italy, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands and Western Germany, the Czech Republic and Eastern Germany, and the United States. Each is investigated using survey data relating age at motherhood with the investment in education of the mother. The result is a detailed picture of the economics of fertility decisions.
Abstract:
Examines various economic aspects of the role of women's education in the postponement of maternity in ten industrialized countries. This book investigates one of these countries in each of its chapters using individual/household survey data, particularly focusing on the increasing age at motherhood with the investment in education of the mother
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction and Contributions of this Volume; Fertility Decisions: Economic Theory, Empirical Analysis, and Policy Relevance; The Marginal Effect of School Leaving Age on Demographic Events. A Contribution to the Discussion on Causality; Explaining the Fertility Decline in Ireland; Female Labour Force Participation and Marital Fertility in Italy; Career planning in Spain: do fixed-term contracts delay marriage and parenthood?; The Family Earnings Gap and Postponement of Maternity in the United States; Household Consumption, Saving and Employment Around the Time of Births in The Netherlands
Description / Table of Contents:
Family Formation in East and West Germany Before and After UnificationEducation and Entry into Motherhood in the Czech Republic During State-Socialism and the Transition Period 1970-1997; Assortative Mating by Education and Postponement of Couple Formation and First Birth in Britain and Sweden; Education and Completed Fertility in Norway
Note:
Collection of texts partly published previously
,
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Selection of the contributions to the conference took place at the University of Amsterdam, Department of Economics in October 2002
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-4716-9
URL:
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