Romania: Childbearing metamorphosis within a changing context

Mureşan, Cornelia; Haragus, Paul-Teodor; Hărăguş, Mihaela; Schröder, C.

doi:10.4054/demres.2008.19.23

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“…These factors, as well as the elimination of coercive population policy and the shrinking of family benefits, resulted in a general postponement of family formation, a reduction in family size and a rise in non-marital cohabitation and childbearing after 1989 (Mureşan et al 2008). Based on these demographic and policy-related idiosyncrasies and the advanced progression of France in the SDT, we anticipate a higher incidence of non- (Mureşan et al 2008). This leads us to our final country-specific hypothesis:…”

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“…During socialism, the less gender-segregated labour market was a side effect of universalism, while after the collapse of communism, it generated lower incomes, job insecurity, and increased marriage instability, which created the need for women"s full-time labour market participation (Pascall & Kwak 2005, in Motiejunaite 2008). These factors, as well as the elimination of coercive population policy and the shrinking of family benefits, resulted in a general postponement of family formation, a reduction in family size and a rise in non-marital cohabitation and childbearing after 1989 (Mureşan et al 2008). Based on these demographic and policy-related idiosyncrasies and the advanced progression of France in the SDT, we anticipate a higher incidence of non- (Mureşan et al 2008).…”

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Family Formation Trajectories in Romania, the Russian Federation and France: Towards the Second Demographic Transition?

2012

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This study examines family formation trajectories as a manifestation of the second demographic transition (SDT) in three countries, comparing and contrasting two post-socialist countries (Romania and the Russian Federation) with France as benchmark country advanced in the SDT. By examining combined partnership and fertility sequences and transcending the mainly descriptive nature of trajectory-based studies, the current study expands our knowledge by including key explanatory factors, such as cohort, country, and educational level. Pooled data from the Gender and Generations Survey (N = 30,197) is used to engage in sequence, optimal matching (OM), cluster and multinomial logistic regression analysis. Post-Communist cohorts are significantly more likely to engage in long-term cohabitation, childbearing within cohabitation or lone parenthood. Educational level operates differently across countries, with the highly educated in Romania and the Russian Federation less likely to follow certain de-standardized paths. Non-marital cohabitation with children is associated with lower education in all countries. Strong differences emerge between the shape and stages of the SDT in Romania and Russia, with Russians having a higher probability to experience childbearing within cohabitation, opposed to Romanians who follow childless marriage patterns or adopt postponement and singlehood. The three countries differ in their advancement in the SDT and factors shaping partnering and childbearing choices. We conclude that although the SDT remains a useful construct, it needs to be supplemented with more nuanced contextual accounts of socio-economic conditions.Cet article étudie les trajectoires de formation de la famille en tant qu'expression de la seconde transition démographique (STD) dans trois pays, comparant et contrastant deux pays postsocialistes (la Roumanie et la Fédération de Russie) avec la France, pays considéré comme référence pour son stade d'avancement dans la STD. En examinant conjointement les séquences d'union et de fécondité et en dépassant la nature essentiellement descriptive des études sur les trajectoires, cette étude inclut des facteurs explicatifs clés, tels que la cohorte, le pays, le niveau d'instruction, afin d'élargir les connaissances dans ce domaine. Des données intégrées des enquêtes Genre et Génération (N = 30.197) sont utilisées pour effectuer des analyses de séquences, d'appariement optimal, de regroupement, et de régression logistique multinomiale. Les individus appartenant aux cohortes dénommées " post-communistes " sont significativement plus susceptibles de s'engager dans des cohabitations de longue durée, d'avoir des enfants dans le cadre d'une cohabitation ou de constituer une famille monoparentale. L'impact du niveau d'instruction varie selon les pays. En Roumanie et dans la Fédération de Russie, les individus ayant les niveaux d'instruction les plus élevés sont moins susceptibles d'adopter des trajectoires plus marginales. La cohabitation sans mariage mais avec des enfants est associée à de...

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Family Formation Trajectories in Romania, the Russian Federation and France: Towards the Second Demographic Transition?

2012

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“…Her analysis concludes that countries with favourable policies and labour market characteristics, along with egalitarian attitudes towards women's roles, on average had higher TFRs. Support for similar conclusions has been offered by a number of other researchers examining individual country contexts (e.g., for Austria see Sobotka (2009); for Romania see Muresan et al (2008); for Hungary see Kocourkova (2002); for Greece see Rendall et al (2010)). …”

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Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers: Educational fertility differentials by occupational status and industry in six European countries

Barakat¹,

Durham²

2013

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“…Demographers use this approach all the time, indeed it has been used for our current data by Mureşan and Hoem (2010) already. Separate modeling for each birth order opens up for a more accurate specification than our piecewise-constant model, and the ensuing results are sharper in the details they cover than those of, say, Mureşan et al (2008), who use official statistics. On the other hand, given that the TFR is geared to covering all birth orders in a single quantity, producing it from such parity-specific results lifts the challenge to a new level, which we will not address here.…”

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“…For the latter we refer to other contributions, and in particular to Mureşan et al (2008) and Mureşan and Hoem (2010).…”

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An Extension of the Conventional TFR

Hoem

Mureşan

2011

Eur J Population

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The period-based total fertility rate is probably the most commonly used single measure of a population's fertility level, but it has the disadvantage that it only controls for the population's age distribution and not for any other subdividing feature, such as the parity distribution, ethnic composition, or educational attainment. This may lead the TFR to change because the population composition changes, even when the underlying fertility remains constant in each population sub-group. In the present contribution, we use elementary event-history methods to show how one can easily control the TFR against a change in the population's distribution across any selected subdivision. We use the data of the Romanian Gender and Generations Survey of 2005 to illustrate how this can be done.Keywords Total fertility rate Á First, second, third births Á Event history analysis Á Romania Résumé L'indicateur conjoncturel de fécondité (ICF) est probablement l'indicateur unique le plus utilisé pour mesurer le niveau de fécondité d'une population, mais il présente l'inconvénient de ne contrôler que la distribution par âge de la population sans contrôler d'autres éléments, telles que la distribution par parité, par composition ethnique ou par niveau d'instruction. L'ICF peut alors changer si la composition de la population évolue, même si la fécondité demeure constante dans chaque sous-groupe de population. Dans cet article, nous utilisons des méthodes élémentaires d'analyse biographique pour montrer qu'il est possible de calculer l'indicateur conjoncturel de fécondité en contrôlant pour un changement dans la

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Romania: Childbearing metamorphosis within a changing context

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Family Formation Trajectories in Romania, the Russian Federation and France: Towards the Second Demographic Transition?

Family Formation Trajectories in Romania, the Russian Federation and France: Towards the Second Demographic Transition?

Drop-out mayors and graduate farmers: Educational fertility differentials by occupational status and industry in six European countries

An Extension of the Conventional TFR

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