Rendall, Michael S and Ekert-Jaffé, Olivia and Joshi, Heather and Lynch, Kevin and Mougin, Rémi (2009) Universal versus Economically Polarized Change in Age at First Birth: A French–British Comparison. Population and Development Review, 35 (1). pp. 89-115. ISSN 0098-7921
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Abstract
France and the United Kingdom in the 1980s and 1990s represented two contrasting institutional models for the integration of employment and motherhood: The ‘universalistic’ regime type offering subsidized child-care and maternity-leave benefits at all income levels; and the ‘means-testing’ regime type mainly offering income-tested benefits for single mothers. Using the two countries as comparative case studies, we develop and test the hypothesis that the socio-economic gradient of fertility timing has become increasingly mediated by family policy. We find increasing polarization in age at first birth by pre-childbearing occupation in the U.K. but not in France. Early first births persisted in the U.K. only among women in low-skill occupations, while shifts towards increasingly late first births occurred in clerical/secretarial occupations and above. Age at first birth increased across all occupations in France, but was still much earlier on average than for all but low-skill British mothers.
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| Additional Information: | The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com |
| Subjects: | Departments > Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
| Depositing User: | IOE Repository Editor (2) |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2010 10:36 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jun 2012 22:37 |
| URI: | http://eprints.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/6106 |
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