Education and Postponement of Maternity Economic Analyses for Industrialized Countries /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gustafsson, Siv (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Kalwij, Adriaan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Economics.; Management science.; Social policy.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Social Policy.; Economics, general.

One of the most important demographic issues of our time is the increasing age of women at motherhood. This happens in the northern social democratic states Sweden and Norway, in the catholic countries Italy, Spain and Ireland, in the West European countries Netherlands and Germany, in the former so...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• and Contributions of this Volume
• Fertility Decisions: Economic Theory, Empirical Analysis, and Policy Relevance
• The Marginal Effect of School Leaving Age on Demographic Events. A Contribution to the Discussion on Causality
• Explaining the Fertility Decline in Ireland
• Female Labour Force Participation and Marital Fertility in Italy
• Career planning in Spain: do fixed-term contracts delay marriage and parenthood?
• The Family Earnings Gap and Postponement of Maternity in the United States
• Household Consumption, Saving and Employment Around the Time of Births in The Netherlands
• Family Formation in East and West Germany Before and After Unification
• Education and Entry into Motherhood in the Czech Republic During State-Socialism and the Transition Period 1970–1997
• Assortative Mating by Education and Postponement of Couple Formation and First Birth in Britain and Sweden
• Education and Completed Fertility in Norway.