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The relationship between fertility and the participation rate of
women in the workforce is an increasingly important area of study
for economists, demographers and policy-makers. Recent data show
important differences in the relationship between employment rates
of women and fertility across Europe. For example, in southern
Europe, low fertility rates are combined with low rates of female
participation. In contrast, Nordic countries are experiencing
relatively high fertility rates combined with high female labour
market participation. Social Policies, Labour Markets and
Motherhood analyses the effects of policies aimed to reconcile
motherhood and labour market participation. Making extensive use of
European Community Household Panel data, it compares the outcomes
of policies in several European countries, analysing why they
succeed in some environments but not in others. It will be of
interest to researchers, policy-makers and graduate students
working on labour markets, population economics, demography and the
methodology of applied microeconomics.
The relationship between fertility and the participation rate of
women in the workforce is an increasingly important area of study
for economists, demographers and policy-makers. Recent data show
important differences in the relationship between employment rates
of women and fertility across Europe. For example, in southern
Europe, low fertility rates are combined with low rates of female
participation. In contrast, Nordic countries are experiencing
relatively high fertility rates combined with high female labour
market participation. Social Policies, Labour Markets and
Motherhood analyses the effects of policies aimed to reconcile
motherhood and labour market participation. Making extensive use of
European Community Household Panel data, it compares the outcomes
of policies in several European countries, analysing why they
succeed in some environments but not in others. It will be of
interest to researchers, policy-makers and graduate students
working on labour markets, population economics, demography and the
methodology of applied microeconomics.
Women's Work, the Family, and Social Policy focuses on the issue of
women's work in Italy as seen in the context of the last three
decades of the twentieth century and against the backdrop of
changes that have been occurring since the late sixties in women's
status in society and family. Using a comparative approach, the
contributors analyze trends in women's employment, their
motivations to work, the impact on fertility and family patterns of
working women, strategies to conciliate work and children,
effectiveness of social policy, and the effects of women's work on
family's income and income distribution. This book looks at women's
work from the point of view of the human capital thus being
mobilized and its wide-ranging impact on society and the economy.
Covering employment and wage gender gaps, participation of women,
fertility, and the welfare of children, this insightful volume
discusses how the trend towards greater participation of women in
labour markets interacts with gender differences in pay. It
focusses on the scope for increasing the number of women in the
labour force without negatively affecting the development of their
children. The need for this volume has become self evident. At the
Spring 2000 Lisbon meeting of the European Council the Heads of
Governments of the EU agreed to accelerate the greater
participation of women in the labour market. However, neither in
Lisbon nor in the subsequent Spring European Councils of the EU was
it discussed how to achieve this target - and the trade-offs that
would be involved in increasing the participation of women in paid
employment. Policies for increasing participation must involve some
losers, or they would already have been implemented everywhere.
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