Labour market integration, occupational uncertainty, and fertility choices in Germany and the UK
Labour market integration, occupational uncertainty, and fertility choices in Germany and the UK
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德国和英国的劳动力市场一体化、职业不确定性和生育选择
DOI：
10.4054/demres.2012.26.12
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发表时间：
2012
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
C. Schmitt
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作者：
C. Schmitt
本文的目的是调查职业前景如何影响男性和女性的第一生育决定。将欧洲大陆保守的德国福利国家与自由市场经济的英国进行对比，分析的重点在于，在职业前景光明或黯淡的背景下，福利国家的一致性如何影响生育率的基本原理。根据BHPS和GSOEP的数据得出的结果显示，福利国家的取向影响了工作与家庭的选择，导致英国和德国女性在与劳动力市场关系密切的情况下推迟组建家庭。此外，漫长的职业融合过程往往会阻碍男女向为人父母的过渡，在德国尤其如此。
The aim of this paper is to investigate how occupational prospects affect first-birth decisions of men and women. Contrasting the continental conservative German welfare state with the liberal market economy of the UK, the focus of analyses rests on how welfare state alignment affects fertility rationales in the context of either promising or bleak occupational prospects. The results based on data from BHPS and GSOEP show that welfare state orientations influence work-family choices, evoking a delay of family formation among British and German women with a close labour market attachment. Furthermore, a lengthy process of occupational integration tends to hamper the transition to parenthood among both men and women, and particularly in Germany.