Cargando…
Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne
In this paper, we look into how country-specific factors shape the interrelationship between childbearing and women’s labor supply. To this end, we compare Italy and Poland, two low-fertility countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong but wh...
Autores principales: | , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Springer Netherlands
2013
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-013-9287-4 |
_version_ | 1782280574114725888 |
---|---|
author | Matysiak, Anna Vignoli, Daniele |
author_facet | Matysiak, Anna Vignoli, Daniele |
author_sort | Matysiak, Anna |
collection | PubMed |
description | In this paper, we look into how country-specific factors shape the interrelationship between childbearing and women’s labor supply. To this end, we compare Italy and Poland, two low-fertility countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong but which differ in the history of women’s labor supply and the extent to which couples’ material aspirations are satisfied by men’s earnings. Our findings show that women’s employment clearly conflicts with childbearing in Italy, while in Poland women tend to combine the two activities, despite the similar difficulties they face. These results challenged the standard microeconomic explanations and point to the importance of other country-specific factors, apart from conditions for work and family reconciliation, in shaping women’s employment and fertility decisions, such as economic incentives or culturally rooted behavioral patterns. Overall, our study provides thus foundations for explaining the variation in the relationship between women’s employment and fertility in an enlarged Europe. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-3744382 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2013 |
publisher | Springer Netherlands |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-37443822013-08-16 Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne Matysiak, Anna Vignoli, Daniele Eur J Popul Article In this paper, we look into how country-specific factors shape the interrelationship between childbearing and women’s labor supply. To this end, we compare Italy and Poland, two low-fertility countries where the country-specific obstacles to work and family reconciliation are similarly strong but which differ in the history of women’s labor supply and the extent to which couples’ material aspirations are satisfied by men’s earnings. Our findings show that women’s employment clearly conflicts with childbearing in Italy, while in Poland women tend to combine the two activities, despite the similar difficulties they face. These results challenged the standard microeconomic explanations and point to the importance of other country-specific factors, apart from conditions for work and family reconciliation, in shaping women’s employment and fertility decisions, such as economic incentives or culturally rooted behavioral patterns. Overall, our study provides thus foundations for explaining the variation in the relationship between women’s employment and fertility in an enlarged Europe. Springer Netherlands 2013-04-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3744382/ /pubmed/23956480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-013-9287-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2013 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Article Matysiak, Anna Vignoli, Daniele Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title | Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title_full | Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title_fullStr | Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title_full_unstemmed | Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title_short | Diverse Effects of Women’s Employment on Fertility: Insights From Italy and Poland: Diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’Italie et de la Pologne |
title_sort | diverse effects of women’s employment on fertility: insights from italy and poland: diverses conséquences de l’emploi des femmes sur la fécondité: quelques informations à partir des cas de l’italie et de la pologne |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3744382/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23956480 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10680-013-9287-4 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT matysiakanna diverseeffectsofwomensemploymentonfertilityinsightsfromitalyandpolanddiversesconsequencesdelemploidesfemmessurlafeconditequelquesinformationsapartirdescasdelitalieetdelapologne AT vignolidaniele diverseeffectsofwomensemploymentonfertilityinsightsfromitalyandpolanddiversesconsequencesdelemploidesfemmessurlafeconditequelquesinformationsapartirdescasdelitalieetdelapologne |