Women's Labor Force Attachment and Childbearing in Finland
This paper analyzes the impact of women's economic activity, earnings and take-up of child home care allowance on childbearing, using a ten percent sample from a longitudinal register data set that covers the entire female population of reproductive age in Finland in 1988-2000. Results show tha...
| Format: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2004-04-01
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| Series: | Demographic Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.demographic-research.org/special/3/8/ |
| Summary: | This paper analyzes the impact of women's economic activity, earnings and take-up of child home care allowance on childbearing, using a ten percent sample from a longitudinal register data set that covers the entire female population of reproductive age in Finland in 1988-2000. Results show that a woman's economic activity and income were positively correlated with entry into motherhood and to a lesser extent with having a second child. This supports the notion of a common pattern of this relationship in the Nordic countries. In the light of Finland's rollercoaster economic development in the 1990s, the effects of a change in female population composition by economic characteristics on the fertility trend were small. |
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| ISSN: | 1435-9871 |