Publication type
Report
Series Number
RES-061-23-0127
Series
ESRC End of Award Reports
Author
Publication date
June 1, 2008
Abstract:
Using three international sources of longitudinal household data (Europe, Italy and UK), this project examined the social and employment circumstances that help predict the timing of people entering the labour market and childbirth. This was done at individual and household level. In particular, it focused on how some unobservable traits, preferences and characteristics that make people different from one another, influenced careers and how employment and fertility choices were jointly determined.
The aims were:
* Identify how uncertainty in employment influences childbirth decisions
* Establish if employment and decisions to have children are interrelated
* Explore if, and how, men's and women's employment decisions relate to joint childbirth choices.
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Link
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