Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state

Family life in power couples.

“…This is not a simple compositional effect attributable to a failure to fully control for the high fertility of low income immigrants in the sample, as was shown in a study with similar findings in which the country of birth was controlled for in much greater detail (Andersson and Scott 2007). Moreover, because there is no indication that the effects are stronger for couples in which the woman, rather than the man, has a low income (results not shown), it is less likely that the negative effect of income on higher order births is a result of a reverse causation in which high fertility women withdraw from the labour market, and thus earn less.…”

High Suburban Fertility: Evidence from Four Northern European Countries

“…However, previous studies for the Nordic countries have shown that in the context of a relatively high educational homogamy and the prevalence of dual-earner couples, woman's educational and labour market characteristics are good proxies for the household's labour market performance and income and its association with fertility (cf. Andersson et al 2005;Andersson and Scott 2007). Thus, we expect that the inclusion of data on the partner's education and employment would be unlikely to make a significant difference to the patterns we observe.…”

Engendering the fertility-migration nexus: The role of women's migratory patterns in the analysis of fertility after migration

“…A family-centered welfare regime which suffers from rigidity, inappropriateness, and a limited availability of services for children under age three are conditions which strongly affect women's fertility outcomes, and especially those of female workers, irrespective of their migration background (Ferrera 2006;OECD 2012;Bonizzoni 2014). It may be the case that in countries where there is no negative association between a woman's involvement in the labor market and having larger numbers of children, and where it is relatively easy to combine childrearing and employment (Andersson and Scott 2007), the differences between these categories are less evident.…”