Squeezing birth into working life : household panel data analyses comparing Germany, Great Britain, Sweden and the Netherlands / Cécile Wetzels.

This title was first published in 2001. Increasingly, young women throughout Europe educate themselves for a life-long labour market career. So, where does birth fit into a young woman's curriculum vitae? This book takes a welfare state comparative perspective on this issue, analyzing relevant...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Wetzels, Cécile (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Series:Routledge revivals.
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Table of Contents:
  • Subject and relevance
  • Positioning in the scientific field
  • Data
  • Breadwinner Ideology against Individual and Equal Role Sharing Ideology
  • Social Policy Ideologies 1: principle of need, market work performance and citizenship
  • Social Policy Ideologies 2: principle of maintenance and care
  • Actual public policies on the family
  • Creating Comparative Fertility and Work Files from Household Panel Data Sets
  • Description of household panel data sets
  • Birth events in a woman's life
  • Labor market histories around births
  • Finding husbands and/or cohabiting men
  • Earnings of women and men around the date of having children
  • Comparing education across countries
  • Comparing years of experience in paid work between countries
  • Women's Labour Force Transitions in Connection with Childbirth
  • Labour force participation before entering motherhood
  • Home makers and market career women
  • The timing of entering the labour force after birth
  • Women's Share in Earnings Before and After the Birth of Children
  • Data and definition of variables
  • Women's contribution to family income
  • An explanation of the change in earnings around childbirth
  • Results of estimations on labour supply of recent mothers
  • Decomposition of after birth's earnings: a comparison between Germany and Sweden using simulations
  • Paid Careers and the Timing and Spacing of Births in Germany, Great Britain and Sweden
  • Theoretical considerations on timing and spacing of births.