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Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility

A Rational-Choice Approach

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Jacques J. Siegers

    1. Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  2. Jenny Jong-Gierveld

    1. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands

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  3. Evert Imhoff

    1. Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Population Economics (POPULATION)

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Table of contents (14 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Editors’ Introduction

    1. Editors’ Introduction

      • Jacques J. Siegers, Jenny de Jong-Gierveld, Evert van Imhoff
      Pages 1-7

  3. Theoretical Points of Departure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Understanding the Interdependence Between Parallel Careers

      • Frans J. Willekens
      Pages 11-31

    3. Social Approval, Fertility and Female Labour Market

      • Siegwart Lindenberg
      Pages 32-58

  4. Preferences

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. De Gustibus Confusi Sumus ?

      • Thomas K. Burch
      Pages 61-73

    3. Shortcuts as Pitfalls ? Ways of Measuring Childbearing Preferences and Intentions

      • Freddy Deven, Sabien Bauwens
      Pages 74-86

    4. Motivation of Reproductive Behaviour and the Professional Motivation of Women

      • Erika Spieß, Friedemann W. Nerdinger, Lutz von Rosenstiel
      Pages 87-100

    5. A Purposeful Behaviour Theory of Work and Family Size Decisions

      • Richard P. Bagozzi, M. Frances Van Loo
      Pages 101-129

  6. Confrontation of Preferences and Restrictions: the Construction of Theoretical Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 173-173
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    2. Economic Models of Women’s Employment and Fertility

      • John F. Ermisch
      Pages 175-190

    3. Models of Female Labour Supply, with Special Reference to the Effects of Children

      • Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
      Pages 191-212

    4. Children and Female Labour Supply: A Survey of Econometric Approaches

      • Alice Nakamura, Masao Nakamura
      Pages 213-236

    5. How Economics, Psychology, and Sociology Might Produce a Unified Theory of Fertility and Labour Force Participation

      • Boone A. Turchi
      Pages 237-262

  7. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship between Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-263
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    2. Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility

      • Jacques J. Siegers
      Pages 265-274
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About this book

Since 1987, the investigation of the relationship between female labour market behaviour and fertility, which forms part of the research programme of the Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV) of Utrecht University, also became a part of the research programme of the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI). Since then, I have been entrusted with research on this topic. In this context, I acted on a suggestion made by Frans Willekens to organize an international workshop, with the help of other members of the NIDI staff and with the administrative and organizational support of the NIDI. This resulted in the workshop "Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility: Preferences, Restrictions, Behaviour," held at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute in The Hague, April 20-22, 1989, under the auspices of the European Association for Population Studies (EAPS). In this workshop, demographers, econometricians, economists, psychologists and socio­ logists discussed the paths to a truly interdisciplinary approach to the relationship between female labour market behaviour and fertility. Such an interdisciplinary approach requires a common theoretical framework. The rational-choice framework was considered to be best suited to this purpose. As a consequence, the workshop was not only structured by what was studied, but also by how it was studied. This volume consists of the papers presented at the above-mentioned workshop, as revised by the authors in collaboration with the editors.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Economic Institute / Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Labour Market and Distribution Issues (CIAV), Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Jacques J. Siegers

  • Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Hague, The Netherlands

    Jenny Jong-Gierveld, Evert Imhoff

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Female Labour Market Behaviour and Fertility

  • Book Subtitle: A Rational-Choice Approach

  • Editors: Jacques J. Siegers, Jenny Jong-Gierveld, Evert Imhoff

  • Series Title: Population Economics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76550-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-76552-0Published: 20 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-76550-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-6978

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 303

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Population Economics, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods

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