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On the Changing Correlation Between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time

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  • Henriette Engelhardt

    (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

  • Alexia Prskawetz

    (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

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Various authors find that in OECD countries the cross-country correlation between the total fertility rate and the female labour force participation rate turned from a negative value before the 1980s to a positive value thereafter. Based on pooled cross-sectional data, Kögel (2004) shows that (a) unmeasured country-specific factors and (b) country-heterogeneity in the magnitude of the negative time-series association accounts for the reversal in the sign of the cross-country correlation coefficient. Our paper aims to identify those variables that may explain country heterogeneity in the negative association between fertility and female labour force participation. The selection of variables is based on existing macro-demographic theories. We apply aggregate descriptive representations of the time series and cross-country evolution of fertility, female employment and a set of labour market,educational and demographic variables and indicators of social policy.

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  • Henriette Engelhardt & Alexia Prskawetz, 2004. "On the Changing Correlation Between Fertility and Female Employment over Space and Time," European Journal of Population, Springer;European Association for Population Studies, vol. 20(1), pages 35-62, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:eurpop:v:20:y:2004:i:1:d:10.1023_b:eujp.0000014543.95571.3b
    DOI: 10.1023/B:EUJP.0000014543.95571.3b
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    cross-country correlation; female employment; fertility; OECD comparison; time series;
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    • J1 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics
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