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Economic Uncertainty, Welfare State Context, and Family Dynamics

Michaela Kreyenfeld, Liat Raz-Yurovich, Yu-Hua Chen; in Collaboration with Gunnar Andersson (Stockholm University, Sweden), Peter Haan (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

The project uses large-scale prospective data sets to study the interrelation between employment, social policies and family dynamics. It focuses in particular on the way in which welfare-state policies shape the relationship between economic conditions and fertility and union dynamics.Detailed description

 
 

Research keywords: Fertility Development; Economics, Employment, Retirement; Policies, Politics, Administration, Welfare State; Education and Science; Historical Demography

Region keywords: Denmark; Germany; Germany (Alte Bundesländer); Germany (Neue Bundesländer); Israel; Sweden; Ukraine

Publications

Kreyenfeld, M.; Andersson, G.; Pailhé, A.:
Economic uncertainty and family dynamics in Europe (Introduction to special issue of Demographic Research)
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2012-006. (2012).
Haan, P.; Wrohlich, K.:
Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility?: evidence from a structural model
Labour Economics 18:4, 498-512 (2011).
Raz-Yurovich, L.:
Divorce penalty or divorce premium? A longitudinal analysis of the consequences of divorce for men’s and women’s economic activity
European Sociological Review (2011).
Raz-Yurovich, L.:
Economic determinants of divorce among dual-earner couples: Jews in Israel
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2011-008. (2011).
Konietzka, D.; Kreyenfeld, M.:
The growing educational divide in mothers’ employment: an investigation based on the German micro-censuses 1976-2004
Work, Employment and Society 24, 260-278 (2010).
Kreyenfeld, M.:
Uncertainties in female employment careers and the postponement of parenthood in Germany
European Sociological Review 26:3, 351-366 (2010).
Alich, D.:
Fatherhood in Russia between 1970 and 2004: the male perspective of family and fertility behavior in a changing society
Rostock: Universität Rostock (2009).
Andersson, G.; Kreyenfeld, M.; Mika, T.:
Welfare state context, female earnings and childbearing
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-026. (2009).
Gerber, T. P.; Perelli-Harris, B.:
Maternity leave in turbulent times: effects on labor market transitions and fertility in Russia, 1985-2000
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-028. (2009).
Haan, P.; Wrohlich, K.:
Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model
MPIDR Working Paper WP-2009-025. (2009).
Kreyenfeld, M.; Schmidtke, K.; Zühlke, S.:
Eignet sich das Mikrozensus-Panel für familiensoziologische Fragestellungen? Untersuchung am Beispiel der Frage nach den ökonomischen Determinanten der Familiengründung
Zeitschrift für Familienforschung 21:3, 264-285 (2009).
Kreyenfeld, M.:
Ökonomische Unsicherheit und der Aufschub der Familiengründung
In: Flexibilisierung: Folgen für Arbeit und Familie, 232-254. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (2008).
Kreyenfeld, M.; Mika, T.:
Erwerbstätigkeit und Fertilität: Analysen mit der Versicherungskontenstichprobe der deutschen Rentenversicherung
In: Die Versicherungskontenstichprobe als Scientific Use File: Workshop des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV) am 30. und 31. Oktober 2007 in Würzburg, 71-95. Berlin: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (2008).
Perelli-Harris, B.:
Family formation in post-Soviet Ukraine: changing effects of education in a period of rapid social change
Social Forces 87:2, 767-794 (2008).
Perelli-Harris, B.:
Ukraine: on the border between old and new in uncertain times
Demographic Research 19:29, 1145-1178 (2008).

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