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- Title
Employment, family union and childbearing decisions in Great Britain.
- Authors
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; Dickson, Matt
- Abstract
The paper investigates the life-cycle relationship of work and family life in Britain based on the British Household Panel Survey. Using hazard regression techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast, there are strong links between employment of females, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed microsimulations analysis, we show that different levels of labour force participation by females do not necessarily lead to large changes in fertility events. Changes in union formation and fertility events, in contrast, have larger effects on employment.
- Subjects
EMPLOYMENT of married people; HOUSEHOLD surveys; FERTILITY; DECISION making
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 2006, Vol 169, Issue 4, p781
- ISSN
0964-1998
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00432.x