Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: an empirical investigation of second births

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• dc.contributor.author Baizán, Pau
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-07-04T11:49:10Z
• dc.date.available 2024-07-04T11:49:10Z
• dc.date.issued 2020
• dc.description.abstract I outline a theoretical background for interpreting the effects of social class on fertility, based on social class and welfare regime theory. Social class differentials lead to different levels of economic wellbeing and security, compatibility of employment and childcare roles, and of gender equality. I hypothesize that class-specific combinations of these variables result in different incentives for and constraints on family formation, and thus different fertility levels. I use the Spanish sample of the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for the years 2004–2015 and event history analysis techniques to analyze second-birth probabilities. A substantial positive effect of social class on second birth probabilities was found. The results also indicated that the mechanisms concerning the effects of class do not work in a monotonic way, and that specific combinations of mechanisms are relevant for each social group. Overall, the analyses showed that social class is not only key to understand intracountry differentials in fertility but also useful to understand the functioning of the welfare regime and its relationship to overall levels of fertility.
• dc.description.sponsorship The research reported here was funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (Agencia Estatal de Investigación, AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), grant no. CSO2016-80484-R (AEI/FEDER, UE). This research has been supported by a project on Low Fertility, Labor Market, and Family: Factors, Outcomes, and Policy Implications, sponsored by the Korea Institute of Health and Social Affairs between 2016 and 2018.
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• dc.identifier.citation Baizan P. Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: an empirical investigation of second births. Adv Life Course Res. 2020 Dec;46:100377. DOI: 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100377
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100377
• dc.identifier.issn 1569-4909
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/60666
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Elsevier
• dc.relation.ispartof Advances in Life Course Research. 2020 Dec;46:100377
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/1PE/CSO2016-80484-R
• dc.rights © Elsevier http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100377
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• dc.subject.keyword Fertility
• dc.subject.keyword Social class
• dc.subject.keyword Life course
• dc.subject.keyword Economic security
• dc.subject.keyword Role compatibility
• dc.subject.keyword Gender equality
• dc.subject.keyword Welfare regime
• dc.title Linking social class inequalities, labor market status, and fertility: an empirical investigation of second births
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