Journal Article

Fertility and economic instability: the role of unemployment and job displacement

Authors

Publication date

Apr 2015

Summary

In this paper, we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that unemployment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job has. Fertility rates for women affected by a firm closure are significantly below those of a control group, even after 6 years, and this is so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell.

Published in

Journal of Population Economics

Volume and page numbers

28 , 463 -478

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00148-014-0531-y

ISSN

16

Subjects

Unemployment and Childbearing: Fertility

Links

http://serlib0.essex.ac.uk/record=b1599762~S5

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