Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state: The role of labor-market status, country of origin, and gender

This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of foreign-born mothers from ten different countries and the partners to these women, as well as to a sample of Sw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kirk Scott, Gunnar Andersson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research 2007-12-01
Series:Demographic Research
Online Access:http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol17/30/