The impact of the labour market on the timing of marriage and births in Spain |
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Authors: | Maria Gutiérrez-Domènech |
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Institution: | (1) ”la Caixa”-Research Department (9012), Av. Diagonal 629, torre I, 08028 Barcelona, Spain |
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Abstract: | This paper investigates how education and the labour market affect Spanish individual decisions on the timing of marriage
and births, using a Cox hazard approach. It disentangles men and women, and two groups, Cohort 1945–1960 and Cohort 1961–1977.
Results show that female employment delays marriage in Cohort 1945–1960, but it has a reverse effect in Cohort 1961–1977.
We also find evidence that employment is a barrier for family formation since employed women postpone births in both cohorts.
The precarious Spanish labour markets, captured by female unemployment rates, delay family formation, especially by putting
off marriage. Male unemployment, at the individual level, impacts negatively on fertility only through delaying marriage.
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Keywords: | Duration models Fertility Labour market Education |
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