On the changing correlation between fertility and female employment over space and time: a pooled time-series analysis on the impact of social indicators
Titelübersetzung:Zum Wandel der Korrelation von Fertilität und Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in Raum und Zeit: eine empirische Analyse unter Berücksichtigung der Effekte ausgewählter sozialer Indikatoren
Autor/in:
Engelhardt, Henriette
Quelle: Universität Bamberg, Fak. Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Professur für Demografie; Bamberg (Discussion Papers / Universität Bamberg, Professur für Demografie, 9), 2011. 26 S
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Inhalt: "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 time-series analysis, the literature seems to agree that this change is due to unmeasured country and time heterogeneity with respect to female employment. However, the determinants of this heterogeneity remain unclear. Using data of 16 European countries from 1960-2005, the author estimates pooled time-series models of fertility and female labor force participation by applying Prais-Winsten regressions with fixed country and time effects and investigate the changing effect of female labor participation for a set of labor market, educational and demographic variables and indicators of social policy. The empirical findings reveal that the change in the correlation seems to be due to the increasing proportion of females employed part-time, increasing educational attainment of females, increasing age at first birth and increasing gross enrollment ratio of children in pre-primary education." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:women's employment; birth trend; fertility; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Europe; international comparison; Bildungsbeteiligung; determinants; woman; Europa; Geburtenentwicklung; internationaler Vergleich; labor force participation; Determinanten; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; participation in education; Fruchtbarkeit
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung, Bevölkerung
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
Flexible working lives and pension coverage in Europe with a focus on women: Lessons to be learned by Germany
Autor/in:
Leschke, Janine
Quelle: University of Edinburgh, Publication and Dissemination Centre (PUDISCwowe); Edinburgh (Working Papers on the Reconciliation of Work and Welfare in Europe, REC-WP 01/2011), 2011. 26 S
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Inhalt: In particular due to increasing female employment over the last decades employment has become more flexible in regard to the contract form and we observe more discontinuous employment careers. This paper discusses in how far retirement pension systems in Europe are suited to cover the specific risks of flexible workers. Recent reforms to these systems (e.g. the strengthening of private elements) and their outcomes on flexible workers are also scrutinised. Section 1 discusses the increasing flexibility of working lives, focussing on breaks in paid employment caused by the incompatible demands of family and working life and on atypical forms of employment, in particular part-time and fixed-term employment. Section 2 discusses the problems encountered by persons with flexible labour market histories with regard to retirement pensions, and points to good practices from several European countries. Section 3 analyses retirement pension in Germany in detail based on the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) data which contains life course information. It looks at differences in pension coverage taking account of the full-time and part-time employment history of individuals. It puts specific emphasis on the private ‘Riester pension’ plan which contains incentives for participation of specific labour market groups usually disadvantaged in third pillar private pension schemes.
Schlagwörter:Federal Republic of Germany; women's employment; Rente; pension; welfare state; Beschäftigungsform; type of employment; Flexibilität; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Wohlfahrtsstaat; flexibility; pensions; non-standard employment; welfare state; life course perspective; micro-data analysis
SSOAR Kategorie:Arbeitsmarktforschung, Sozialpolitik
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
"La maternité à l'épreuve du genre: métamorphoses
et permanences de la maternité dans l’aire méditerranéenne" (Mutterschaft im Blick der Geschlechterforschung: Metamorphosen und Beständigkeiten von Mutterschaft im Mittelmeerraum): Tagung in Aix-en-Provence, 13./14.01.2011
Titelübersetzung:Maternity in a gender perspective: metamorphises and permanence of maternity in the Mediterranean: conference in Aix-en- Provence, January 13 and 14, 2011
Autor/in:
Sarter, Eva Katharina
Quelle: GENDER - Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 3 (2011) 3, S 148–153
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Inhalt: "Auf der interdisziplinären Tagung wurden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse zu Mutterschaft im Mittelmeerraum präsentiert. Schwerpunkte waren historische, soziologische, politologische, rechtliche und philosophische Beiträge zu den Themenkomplexen Körper, Transmission und Repräsentation sowie Erwerbsarbeit und deren rechtliche Bedingungen. Dabei kristallisierte sich heraus, dass die Definition von Mutterschaft und ihr Bezug zu Weiblichkeit im gesellschaftlichen Kontext zu sehen sind." (Autorenreferat)
Inhalt: "The interdisciplinary conference brought together scientists and practioners from various backgrounds to discuss current historical, sociological, politological, legal and philosophical research on maternity in the Mediterranean with a focus on the body, transmission and representation, and employment and it legal conditions. It was shown that the definition of maternity and how it relates to femininity depend on the broader societal context." (author's abstract)
Schlagwörter:Geschlechterforschung; gender studies; Mutterschaft; motherhood; Mittelmeerraum; Mediterranean region; woman; Körper; body; Weiblichkeit; femininity; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; women's employment; Geschlechterverhältnis; gender relations
SSOAR Kategorie:Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz