Employment; Fertility; Germany; Social class; Uncertainty; Demography
Abstract :
[en] Building on a thick strand of the literature on the determinants of higher-order births, this study uses a gender and class perspective to analyse second birth progression rates in Germany. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel from 1990 to 2020, individuals are classified based on their occupation into: upper service, lower service, skilled manual/higher-grade routine nonmanual, and semi-/unskilled manual/lower-grade routine nonmanual classes. Results highlight the "economic advantage" of men and women in service classes who experience strongly elevated second birth rates. Finally, we demonstrate that upward career mobility post-first birth is associated with higher second birth rates, particularly among men.
Disciplines :
Mathematics Sociology & social sciences Human geography & demography
Konietzka, Dirk; TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Lambert, Philippe ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences sociales > Méthodes quantitatives en sciences sociales ; Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Ramos, Vincent Jerald; Hertie School, Berlin, Germany ; Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Language :
English
Title :
Second Birth Fertility in Germany: Social Class, Gender, and the Role of Economic Uncertainty.
Publication date :
02 March 2023
Journal title :
European Journal of Population
ISSN :
0168-6577
eISSN :
1572-9885
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Netherlands
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