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This paper investigates whether uncertainties in female employment careers result in a postponement of family formation. Data for this analysis comes from the German Socio-Economic Panel, which provides longitudinal information on economic uncertainty and fertility for the period 1984 to 2006. We employ objective measures of uncertainty (unemployment) as well as subjective measures (whether the respondent ...
In:
European Sociological Review
26 (2010), 3, 351-366
| Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Sociologists and demographers have long been interested in the role of economic uncertainty in family behavior. Despite the prevailing “bourgeois conviction” that economic uncertainty discourages people from having children, the empirical evidence on this issue is mixed. In this paper, I summarize the recent empirical evidence, and discuss the potential limitations of previous investigations. Among ...
In:
Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie (KZfSS)
67 (2015), 1, 59-80
| Michaela Kreyenfeld
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Studies that have investigated the role of unemployment in childbearing decisions have often shown no or only barely significant results. We argue that many of these “non-findings” may be attributed to a neglect of group-specific differences in behavior. In this study, we examine how the association of unemployment and fertility varies by socio-demographic subgroups using data from the German Socio-Economic ...
In:
Advances in Life Course Research
21 (2014), September 2014, 59-73
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Gunnar Andersson
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Berlin:
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW),
1999,
(Discussion Paper No. 191)
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Karsten Hank
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In:
Population Research and Policy Review
19 (2000), 4, 317-337
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Karsten Hank
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Rostock:
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research,
2001,
(MPIDR Working Paper WP 2001-002)
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
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In:
European Societies
4 (2002), 1, 53-78
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
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In:
Ingrid Hamm, Helmut Seitz, Martin Werding ,
Demographic Change in Germany. The Economic and Fiscal Consequences
Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer
2008
165-187
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Dirk Konietzka
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In general, day care subsidies are accepted as a means of creating equal chances for both children and mothers in the labour market. Although there is a broad consensus that the use of children's day care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of day care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...
In:
European Early Childhood Education Research Journal
11 (2003), 2, 159-175
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, C. Katharina Spieß, Gert G. Wagner
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In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done. Moreover, there is little knowledge on the distributional effects of child care subsidies. In order to assess whether ...
Colchester:
University of Essex,
1999,
(Working papers of ESRC Research Centre on Micro-social Change. Paper No. 99-21)
| Michaela Kreyenfeld, Gert G. Wagner