Partners’ Educational Characteristics and Fertility: Disentangling the Effects of Earning Potential and Unemployment Risk on Second Births

Autor(en)

A. Trimarchi, J. Van Bavel

Abstrakt

This study investigates the link between the educational characteristics of partners in heterosexual relationships and their transition to second births, accounting for the selection into parenthood by fitting multi-level event history models. We compare the fertility of Beckerian unions characterized by gender-role specialization with the fertility of dual-earner couples, characterized by the pooling of incomes. Focusing on the economic aspect of the educational degree, in a first step, we estimate the earning potential and unemployment risks by field and level of education, country and sex using European Labour Force Surveys. Next, we link these results with Generation and Gender Survey data from six countries and model couples’ transition to second births. We find evidence in support of both the pooling of resources family model (notably in Belgium) and the Beckerian gender-role specialization model. The effects of the earning potential and unemployment risk attached to his and her field of education tends to vary by country context.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

INED - Institut national d'études démographiques, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Journal

European Journal of Population

Band

36

Seiten

439–464

Anzahl der Seiten

26

ISSN

0168-6577

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10680-019-09537-w

Publikationsdatum

07-2020

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

504006 Demographie, 509013 Sozialstatistik

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Demography

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 8 – Menschenwürdige Arbeit und Wirtschaftswachstum

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/partners-educational-characteristics-and-fertility-disentangling-the-effects-of-earning-potential-and-unemployment-risk-on-second-births(3101485b-924c-4884-9e11-da7a9e2be9f7).html